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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.
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Darrin Erickson
reviewed Zhukov on February 10, 2012
Zhukov
Difficult to review this book. While there is nothing wrong with it, it stays a bit dull till the very end.
Mostly describing Zhukov's life and work, specially during WWII (better: the Great Patriotic War) and really describing it instead of giving a lot of insight in Zhukovs way of thinking and his relations with the Soviet leaders and Stalin. Only the part after 1945 starts to give you a view of where Zhukov stood in the post-Stalin era and how he worked with Khruchev to guard the Communist ideal when Eastern Europe rose in 1956 (East Germany and Hungary).
That is an interesting part and shows us a different Zhukov from what we thought we knew of him, a real hardliner.
Because there are hardly any biographies of Soviet generals, this one is not that bad.
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