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In June 1956 Molotov was removed as Foreign Minister, and in July 1957 Khrushchev denounced him, along with Malenkov, Kaganovich and Voroshilov, as part of an "Anti-Party Group" which had plotted to restore Stalinist methods. Molotov was expelled from the Politburo and the Central Committee, and banished as ambassador to Mongolia. In 1960 he was appointed Soviet representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency, which was seen as a partial rehabilitation. But after the 22nd Party Congress in 1961, at which Khrushchev carried his anti-Stalin campaign to a new level, Molotov was removed from all his positions and expelled from the Communist Party. In March 1962 it was announced that Molotov had retired from public life.
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Molotov was a central (and often sinister) figure in Soviet politics until his expulsion from the Central Committee in 1957. A foreign minister during World War II and an influential policy-maker in the early days of the Cold War, he was considered Stalin's right-hand man. His memoirs, compiled from a series of 139 conversations with the Russian writer Chuev between 1969 and Molotov's death in 1986, were first published in Moscow in 1991 to great acclaim. Molotov reveals the inner workings of the Soviet system, providing much new information about decisions, events, and prominent personalities. Historian Resis has attached an introductory overview on Molotov's career and importance and has ... provided brief notes to each of the book's four major sections--International Affairs, With Lenin, With Stalin, and Since Stalin. A chronology of events from 1890 to 1986 is appended. Indispensable for all Soviet history collections.
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Regarding the issue of capital goods and consumer goods industries, Molotov seems to have had an equivocal position. He in fact recalls events of 1950 where he criticized Stalin on this issue. To quote him:
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As incendiary devices, Molotov cocktails are illegal to manufacture or possess in many regions. Their use against people is typically covered under a variety of charges, including battery, actual or grievous bodily harm, manslaughter, attempted murder, and murder, depending upon their effect and upon local laws. Their use against property is usually covered under arson charges. In the United States, Molotov cocktails are considered "destructive devices" and regulated by the ATF.
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When Bukharin's ally Alexei Rykov was removed as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (Prime Minister) in 1930, Molotov succeeded him. In this post he oversaw the Stalin regime's greatest social revolution, the collectivization of agriculture. Molotov carried out Stalin's line of using the maximum force to crush peasant resistance to collectivization, including the deportation of millions of kulaks (peasants with property) to labor camps, where most of them died. He personally led the Extraordinary Commission for Grain Delivery in Ukraine, which seized a reported 4.2 million tonnes of grain from the peasants, leaving them to starve. Contemporary historians estimate that between four and six million Russians and Ukrainians died (either of starvation or in labor camps) in the move to collectivize farms. Molotov ... oversaw the implementation of the first Five-Year Plan for crash industrialization.
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Vyacheslav Molotov was born at Kukarka, Nolinsk district, Vyatka province, on March 9, 1880. His father was the manager of the village store. Molotov's real name was Skryabin; he was the second cousin of the composer and pianist Alexander Skryabin (1872 - 1915). After attending the village school, he was educated at Kazan Real School from 1902, and became involved in the 1905 Revolution in Nolinsk district, joining the Bolshevik Party in 1906. Engaged in revolutionary agitation in Kazan, particularly among student groups, he was arrested in 1909 and exiled to Vologda province.
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