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Lara Cook, in her laudatory review of Sheila Fitzpatrick¡¯s On?Stalin¡¯s Team: The Years of?Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics (Books, 29 October), states that Stalin¡¯s team ¡°even into the 1930s, continued to wear a?version of military uniform in civilian life¡±. The exception here is surely Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, who was always dapper in a?suit and tie, and whom Churchill regarded with ¡°his smile of Siberian winter, his carefully measured and often wise words, his affable demeanour¡± as ¡°the perfect agent of Soviet policy in a?deadly world¡±.

R.?E. Rawles
Honorary research fellow in psychology
University College London

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