Russian revolutionary and prominent Soviet politician.
Named People’s Commissar of Foreign Affairs in 1930. In the subsequent decade, Maxim Litvinov emerged as a leading voice for Soviet policy of collective security with Western powers against Nazi Germany.
Litvinov was born to a wealthy Lithuanian-Jewish banking family, and his birthname was “Meir Henoch Wallach-Finkelstein”
Maxim Litvinov - Wikipedia
"Maksim Litvinov" - Encyclopedia Britannica