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Introduction: "The Kremlin's brilliant mediocrity" -- Negotiating with the Nazis, 1939-1941 -- Forging the Grand Alliance, 1941-1945 -- Fighting the Cold War, 1946-1952 -- Partisan of peace, 1953-1955 -- Defiant in defeat, 1956-1986 -- Conclusion: assessing Molotov.;The orthodox view of Vyacheslav Molotov is that he was no more than Stalin's faithful servant, a dogmatic communist, and a conservative hard-liner of little or no imagination. Molotov was, indeed, Stalin's right-hand man; from the 1920s to the early 1950s the two men presided over a brutal, authoritarian communist system that resulted in the deaths of millions of people. But there was far more to their partnership. In this engaging biography, Geoffrey Roberts proposes a radical reappraisal of Molotov's life and career. He argues that although Molotov, as Soviet foreign minister since 1939, was certainly Stalin's cold warrior, he personally preferred detente and peaceful coexistence with the West. The differences and tensions between Molotov and Stalin came to a head in 1949, when Molotov's wife was arrested and imprisoned because of her involvement with the Soviet Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. Molotov was removed as fo

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Author

Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich;Roberts, Geoffrey

Publisher

Potomac Books, Incorporated

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781574889451

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Biography, Political Science