MolotovThe orthodox view of Vyacheslav Molotov is that he was no more than Stalins faithful servant; a dogmatic conservative communist of little or no imagination. Molotov was, indeed, Stalins 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