2011 marshal zhukov biography
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World War II Database
Georgy Zhukov
| Surname | Zhukov |
| Given Name | Georgy |
| Born | 2 Dec |
| Died | 18 Jun |
| Country | Russia |
| Category | Military-Ground |
| Gender | Male |
Contributor: C. Peter Chen
ww2dbaseBorn in the village of Strelkovka sixty miles south west of Moscow, Russia to a shoemaker, Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov was a member of a poor family. In his teenage years he was an apprentice furrier to his uncle before being drafted into the Russian Imperial Cavalry. During WW1, Sergeant Zhukov was twice decorated with the Cross of St. George for his bravery. During the Bolshevik Revolution of , he led the Red Army's cavalry; in Mar , he officially joined the Communist Party and became deeply indoctrinated in the communist ideals. Even during his friendship with Dwight Eisenhower immediately after the end of WW2, Eisenhower noted his sincere devotion to Marxist ideals during their philosophical discussions. Zhukov's quickness to react on the battlefield led him
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Ruthless General Zhukov
To the Editors:
In his review of Stalin’s General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov [“The Truth About World War II,” NYR, October 11], Richard J. Evans writes that millions of Soviet soldiers lost their lives unnecessarily because Red Army generals like Zhukov had a callous disregard for the lives of their troops and preferred full-frontal attacks to more sophisticated tactics. As I show in the book, Zhukov vehemently rejected such criticism and mocked armchair generals who could always tell you—after the event—how to win battles cheaper and easier. During the course of my research I came across plenty of evidence of Zhukov’s efforts to conserve forces and protect his troops, not least through his meticulous preparation for battle.
It is true that Zhukov and the other Soviet generals were ruthless in pursuit of victory and prepared to incur high casualties to achieve their goals. But who can blame them given what was at stake? The consequence of a German vi
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Reading Marshal Zhukov: Stalin, Hitler and the Path to Barbarossa
Like some astronomers who discover relaterad till rymden eller universum objects not by direkt observation but by watching the deviations of known heavenly bodies from their calculated trajectories, Peter Mezhiritsky makes his findings in history through thoughtful reading and the comparison of historical sources. This book, a unique blend of prosaic literature and shrewd historic analysis, is dedicated to events in Soviet history in light of Marshal Zhukov's memoirs. Exhaustive knowledge of Soviet life, politics and censorship, including the phraseology in which Communist statesmen were allowed to narrate their biographical events, gave Peter Mezhiritsky sharp tools for the analysis of the Marshal's memoirs.
The reader will learn about the överflöd of awkward events that strangely and fortuitously occurred in good time for Stalin's rise to power, about the hidden connection between the purges, the Munich appeasement and the German occupati