Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-24577079-20150203011715/@comment-3550280-20150208151046

Molotov was a part of Soviet bureaucracy. The reason why he sided with Stalin and later became hard-liner Stalinist is simply he want to save his position in the bureaucracy; he choose the strongest candidate that able to lead the party: Stalin. As long as I know, Molotov never truly had an ambition to become a leading figure within the Soviet government or the Bolshevik Party even if there was any possibilities to do that; he only want a job and decent life as a petite bureaucrat.