Summary of Geoffrey Roberts's Stalin's General

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#1 The salute at the Victory Parade in Red Square in 1945 was one of the greatest moments of triumph in the life of Marshal Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov. He was chosen to lead the parade by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, who had saved Europe from Nazi enslavement.

#2 Zhukov was the leader of the Soviet Union’s first successful counteroffensive, which forced the Wehrmacht to retreat and demonstrate that Hitler’s war machine was not invincible. In December 1941, he launched a counteroffensive that drove the Wehrmacht away from Moscow.

#3 Zhukov was not a man given to overt displays of emotion, but his demotion and exile to Odessa caused him great distress. He was expelled from the Communist Party Central Committee in February 1947 on grounds that he had an antiparty attitude.

#4 During the post-Stalin era, Zhukov was rehabilitated and appointed deputy minister of defense in 1953. In 1955 he was promoted to minister of defense, but was sacked in 1958. He suffered the same fate of excision from the history books during the Khrushchev era.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Mar 29, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669377917

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Insights on Geoffrey Roberts's Stalins General

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The salute at the Victory Parade in Red Square in 1945 was one of the greatest moments of triumph in the life of Marshal Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov. He was chosen to lead the parade by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, who had saved Europe from Nazi enslavement.

#2

Zhukov was the leader of the Soviet Union’s first successful counteroffensive, which forced the Wehrmacht to retreat and demonstrate that Hitler’s war machine was not invincible. In December 1941, he launched a counteroffensive that drove the Wehrmacht away from Moscow.

#3

Zhukov was not a man given to overt displays of emotion, but his demotion and exile to Odessa caused him great distress. He was expelled from the Communist Party Central Committee in February 1947 on grounds that he had an antiparty attitude.

#4

During the post-Stalin era, Zhukov was rehabilitated and appointed deputy minister of defense in 1953. In 1955 he was promoted to minister of defense, but was sacked in 1958. He suffered the same fate of excision from the history books during the Khrushchev era.

#5

Zhukov’s memoirs were extremely popular in the Soviet Union, and they quickly became the most influential account of the Great Patriotic War. They were not published in the West until 1969, after Khrushchev was ousted from power.

#6

Zhukov was a flawed character, but he was also a highly talented military leader. He was an offensive-minded general, but he learned the virtues of withdrawal and retreat during the war. He was not personally indifferent to the fate of his troops.

#7

Zhukov was a communist and a loyal servant of Stalin and the Soviet regime. He was a great general, but he also made many mistakes. Because he was a flawed and contradictory character, it will not be possible to render a simple verdict on his life and career.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The accepted story of Georgy Zhukov’s childhood and youth is a rags-to-riches fairy tale. Born into a poor peasant family in rural Russia in 1896, Zhukov was apprenticed to a furrier at the age of twelve and sent to work in Moscow.

#2

Zhukov’s birthplace was in the Kaluga Province, an area called the Central Industrial Region. It was dominated by lakes, rivers, and forests, which Zhukov loved, but not so conducive to agriculture.

#3

When he was seven, Georgy began school in Moscow, and after three years completed the elementary course. His mother sent him to Moscow to work for his uncle, Mikhail, as an apprentice furrier. Moscow was a completely different world from the one he was used to.

#4

Zhukov was a practical man of action who was not an intellectual general. He was a good student of