Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin Politics

by V. M. Molotov, Feliz Chuev, Albert Resis Emeritus Professor of Rus (Editor)

Overview

In conversations with the poet-biographer Felix Chuev, Molotov offers an incomparable view of the politics of Soviet society and the nature of Kremlin leadership under communism. Filled with startling insights and indelible portraits, the book is an historical source of the first order. A mesmerizing and chilling chronicle. —Kirkus Reviews

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781461694915
Publisher:	Dee, Ivan R. Publisher
Publication date:	09/25/2007
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	463
File size:	682 KB

Editorial Reviews

[U]nique 'memoir' of the political history of the Soviet Union.

Inc. Book News

[I]t is both significant and fascinating.

The Economist

What is effectively conveyed by the conversations, however, is something generally more elusive and less palpable, namely, the world view of Molotov and, though Molotov's example, the categories and structures of Bolshevik thought in its Stalinist variant.

Political Science Quarterly

[This book] is an unusually in-depth penetration of Kremlin politics and the Russian political psyche.

Bookwatch

[This book] provide[s] valuable material for objective historians.

The New Leader

[This book] is an invaluable document.... Molotov's rigid doctrinaire approach, which allows the reader to get to know him as he really was, is the main attraction of the book.

Slavic Review

A book worth reading to understand the inside struggle in erstwhile USSR.

U.S.I. Journal: India's Oldest Journal Of Defense Affairs

Chuev's book...demonstrates the psychological and moral emptiness of the Stalinist clique-half true believes, half paranoid rogues-and shows how wholeheartedly they assisted the dictator in his criminal actions.

Orbis

Eerily fascinating...Probably the best, most accurate and useful to histor insider account we will ever have. One does not so much read this book as engage in a one-on-one conversation with a major figure in a gigantic criminal organization.

University Of Virginia - Woodford McClellan

An important book, the same way Mein Kampf or Mao's Red Book are important...grippingly vivid.

The Washington Times - Arnold Beichman

[This book is] a quite fascinating self-portrait of a very bad man, an ideologue with a deformed morality all his own and a heart of stone.

The Wall Street Journal

[This book] give[s] military members critical insight.... Highly recommended reading.

The Friday Review Of Defense Literature

Molotov Remembers is a major contribution to the study of Soviet history, and it makes spellbinding reading to boot.... [T]his book certainly deserves the widest possible readership.

Gazelle

Of the spate of memoirs published, the most valuable may be Molotov's...should be published in every language.

David Remnick

Offers real insight into top level Stalinist politics...

The New York Times

Molotov Remembers is an important historical document which cannot be ignored by anyone who wishes to understand the mental climate of the Soviet regime.

The Russian Review - Robert V. Daniels