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Zhukov / by Otto Preston Chaney ; foreword by Malcolm Mackintosh.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 2014Edition: Revised editionDescription: xxiv, 567 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0806144602
  • 9780806144603
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Contents:
The early years -- Between wars: the "tankist" -- Stalin decapitates the Red army -- Khalkhin-Gol -- Before the storm -- Barbarossa! -- Leningrad, 1941 -- The view from Istra -- The lure of Stalingrad -- The end of Drang nach Osten -- The Third Reich passes into history -- A brief honeymoon -- Obscurity ... and reappearance -- The soldier-politician -- "Black sheep in a small flock": the antiparty group -- Yedinonachalie and Bonapartism: the dismissal of Zhukov -- The resurrection of an unperson.
Summary: Marshal Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov, hero of Leningrad, defender of Moscow and Stalingrad, commander of the victorious Red Army at Berlin, was the most decorated soldier in Soviet history. Yet for many years Zhukov was relegated to the status of "unperson" in his homeland. Now, following glasnost and the fall of the Soviet Union, Zhukov is being restored to his rightful place in history. In this completely updated version of his classic 1971 biography of Zhukov, Otto Preston Chaney provides the definitive account of the man and his achievements. To provide a thorough account of Zhukov's life, Chaney draws upon a large range of historical and military sources, correcting old information with new. His most important source is Zhukov's own memoirs, which have recently been expanded to include previously censored material.
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Marshal Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov, hero of Leningrad, defender of Moscow and Stalingrad, commander of the victorious Red Army at Berlin, was the most decorated soldier in Soviet history. Yet for many years Zhukov was relegated to the status of "unperson" in his homeland. Now, following glasnost and the fall of the Soviet Union, Zhukov is being restored to his rightful place in history. In this completely updated version of his classic 1971 biography of Zhukov, Otto Preston Chaney provides the definitive account of the man and his achievements.

Zhukov's career spanned most of the Soviet period, reflecting the turmoil of the civil war, the hardships endured by the Russian people in World War II, the brief postwar optimism evidenced by the friendship between Zhukov and Eisenhower, repression in Poland and Hungary, and the rise and fall of such political figures as Stalin, Beria, and Krushchev. The story of Russia's greatest soldier thus offers many insights into the history of the Soviet Union itself.

Originally published: 1971.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 527-551) and index.

The early years -- Between wars: the "tankist" -- Stalin decapitates the Red army -- Khalkhin-Gol -- Before the storm -- Barbarossa! -- Leningrad, 1941 -- The view from Istra -- The lure of Stalingrad -- The end of Drang nach Osten -- The Third Reich passes into history -- A brief honeymoon -- Obscurity ... and reappearance -- The soldier-politician -- "Black sheep in a small flock": the antiparty group -- Yedinonachalie and Bonapartism: the dismissal of Zhukov -- The resurrection of an unperson.

Marshal Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov, hero of Leningrad, defender of Moscow and Stalingrad, commander of the victorious Red Army at Berlin, was the most decorated soldier in Soviet history. Yet for many years Zhukov was relegated to the status of "unperson" in his homeland. Now, following glasnost and the fall of the Soviet Union, Zhukov is being restored to his rightful place in history. In this completely updated version of his classic 1971 biography of Zhukov, Otto Preston Chaney provides the definitive account of the man and his achievements. To provide a thorough account of Zhukov's life, Chaney draws upon a large range of historical and military sources, correcting old information with new. His most important source is Zhukov's own memoirs, which have recently been expanded to include previously censored material.

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