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.

Table of Contents

1 The Making of a Revolutionary, 1890-1917

2 Forging the Bolshevik Regime

3 Party Secretary

4 The Struggle with the Oppositions 1925-1927

5 Stalin's Lieutenant 1927-1929

6 Change and Consolidation 1929-1930

7 Head of Government

8 Molotov and the Terror 1934-1938

9 1939 - Molotov Becomes Foreign Minister

10 The Nazi-Soviet Pact and After 1939-1941

11 The Great Patriotic War

12 The Diplomat at War

13 Stalin's Last Years 1945-1953

14 Unrepentant Stalinist 1953-1957

15 The Outcast

About the Author

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 PhD degree.