 The first signs of a 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 was mentioned in encyclopaedias published in 1973 and 1974 , but eventually disappeared altogether by the mid @-@ to @-@ late @-@ 1970s . Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko further rehabilitated Molotov ; in 1984 Molotov was even allowed to seek membership in the Communist Party . A collection of interviews with Molotov from 1985 was published in 1994 by Felix Chuev as Molotov Remembers : Inside Kremlin Politics . Molotov died , during the rule of Mikhail Gorbachev , on 8 November 1986 . He was 96 years old at the time of his death , and was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery , Moscow . 
