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Also Known As Meir Henoch Mojszewicz Wallach-Finkelstein • Maksim Maksimovich Litvinov
Born July 17, 1876 • Białystok • Poland
Died December 31, 1951 (aged 75) • Moscow • Russia
Title / Office foreign minister (1930-1939), Soviet Union
Political Affiliation Bolshevik • Communist Party of the Soviet Union • Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party

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