140 conversations with Molotov. The second after Stalin. Chuev F.I.

The life of Vyacheslav Molotov is inextricably linked with the history of the USSR. He worked with Lenin, was a member of the Military Revolutionary Committee for the preparation of the October armed uprising in Petrograd, deputy chairman of the State Committee of Defense in the Great Patriotic War, occupied high posts in the party and government, from 1939 to 1956 he conducted our foreign policy, met practically With all major figures of the XX century. For 17 years, Felix Chuev regularly met with Vyacheslav Molotov. 140 conversations, each of which lasted 4-5 hours. What was included in this book is not Molotov’s memoirs, but a lively conversation. He told, not dictated. Many judgments were very difficult to “pull out”, he did not reveal some episodes the first time, and he had to return to them after 5, 10, 15 years...