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Molotov - Stalin'S Cold Warrior (Hardcover, New)
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Molotov - Stalin'S Cold Warrior (Hardcover, New)
Series: Shapers of International History
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The orthodox view of Vyacheslav Molotov is that he was no more than
Stalin s faithful servant; a dogmatic conservative communist of
little or no imagination. Molotov was, indeed, Stalin s right-hand
man while from the 1920s the two men presided over a brutal,
authoritarian communist system that led to the deaths of millions
of people. But their partnership was far more complex. In this
engaging biography, Geoffrey Roberts proposes a radical reappraisal
of Molotov s life and career. He argues that although as Soviet
foreign minister from 1939 Molotov was indeed Stalin s cold
warrior, his personal preference was for 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 activities with the Soviet
Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. Molotov refused to condemn her and
was removed as foreign minister but was reappointed to the post
after Stalin s death in 1953. Molotov renewed his efforts to
curtail the Cold War and campaigned for the establishment of a
pan-European system of collective security to halt polarization of
the continent into competing military-political blocs. His attempts
to negotiate an end to the Cold War were stymied by Soviet and
Western hard-liners. Nevertheless his campaign for European
collective security paved the way to the detente of the 1960s and
1970s and abolition of the Cold War in the 1980s and 1990s.In 1957
Molotov was ousted from the Soviet leadership following his
attempted political coup against Nikita Khrushchev, Stalin s
successor as the leader of the Communist Party. He was expelled
from the Party and ended his diplomatic career as ambassador to
Mongolia and as Soviet representative at the International Atomic
Energy Agency in Vienna.
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