This is the first comprehensive biography of Molotov and reflects the range of sources that have become available to historians since the fall of the USSR. It is a commentary on Soviet history. Molotov played his part in revolution, Civil War, Lenin’s Russia, Stalin’s struggle with the oppositions, collectivization, industrialization, the Terror, the Great Patriotic War, the beginnings of the Cold War, and in the Khrushchev era.
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List of Tables Preface and Acknowledgements Lossary of Russian Terms and Abbreviations Used in the Text Introduction The Making of a Revolutionary Forging the Bolshevik Regime Party Secretary The Struggle with the Oppositions, 1925-1927 Stalin’s Lieutenant, 1927-1929 Change and Consolidation, 1929-1930 Head of Government Molotov and the Terror 1939 – Molotov becomes Foreign Minister The Nazi-Soviet Pact and After, 1939-1941 The Great Patriotic War The Diplomat at War Stalin’s Last Years, 1945-1953 Unrepentant Stalinist, 1953-1957 Last Years Conclusion Bibliography
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DEREK WATSON is an Honorary Research Fellow of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham, UK. He studied history at Sheffield University where he was awarded a Ph D degree. After thirty years of teaching and holding senior administrative positions in higher education, he retired in 1991 to concentrate on research and writing. He is the author of
Molotov and Soviet Government: Sovnarkom 1930-41 and a number of articles on Soviet history, including foreign policy.
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