Editing Vyacheslav Molotov (section)

==Later life==
[[File:Vyacheslav Molotov-TIME-1953.jpg|left|thumb|Vyacheslav Molotov on the cover of ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', 20 April 1953|alt=]]
In 1968, United Press International reported that Molotov had completed his memoirs but that they would likely never be published.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Shapiro |first1=Henry |title=Rare Historic Memoir May Never See Light |url=https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist19680829#page/n33/mode/1up/search/o'brien |access-date=24 September 2018 |work=The Daily Colonist (Victoria, Canada) |agency=United Press International |date=29 August 1968}}</ref> The first signs of Molotov's [[rehabilitation (Soviet)|rehabilitation]] were seen during [[Leonid Brezhnev]]'s rule, when information about him was again allowed to be included in Soviet encyclopaedias. His connection, support and work in the [[Anti-Party Group]] were mentioned in encyclopaedias published in 1973 and 1974, but eventually disappeared altogether by the mid-to-late-1970s. Later, Soviet leader [[Konstantin Chernenko]] further rehabilitated Molotov.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bukovskyarchive.wordpress.com/2016/07/01/12-july-1984-pb/|title=12 July 1984* (Pb)|date=1 July 2016|website=wordpress.com|access-date=6 July 2016|archive-date=31 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170731204753/https://bukovskyarchive.wordpress.com/2016/07/01/12-july-1984-pb/|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1984, Molotov was even allowed to seek membership in the Communist Party.{{sfn|Goudoever|1986|p=108}} A collection of interviews with Molotov from the period 1969 to 1986 was published in 1993 by Felix Chuev as ''[[Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin Politics]]''.

In June 1986 Molotov was hospitalised in Kuntsevo Hospital in Moscow, where he eventually died, during the rule of [[Mikhail Gorbachev]], on 8 November 1986.<ref>[http://www.aif.ru/society/history/chelovek_kotoryy_znal_vse_lichnoe_delo_narkoma_molotova Человек, который знал всё. Личное дело наркома Молотова] aif.ru. 9 March 2014.</ref><ref name=":2">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/11/11/obituaries/vyacheslav-m-molotov-is-dead-close-associate-of-stalin-was-96.html?pagewanted=all|title=VYACHESLAV M. MOLOTOV IS DEAD; CLOSE ASSOCIATE OF STALIN WAS 96|first=Raymond H. |last=Anderson|website=The New York Times|date=11 November 1986}}</ref> During his life, Molotov had suffered seven heart attacks, but survived to the age of 96. At the time of his death, he was the last surviving major participant in the events of 1917. He was buried in the [[Novodevichy Cemetery]] in Moscow.{{sfn|Montefiore|2005|p=669}}