Molotov

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 b...