Yuri Zhukov (historian)

Yuri Nikolayevich Zhukov (Russian: Юрий Николаевич Жуков; born 22 January 1938, in Krasnogorsk) is a Russian historian[1] and researcher at the Institute of Russian History at Russian Academy of Sciences.[2][3] Zhukov published several books that glorify Joseph Stalin such as Renaissance of Stalin and Handbook of Stalinist.[4]

Yuri Nikolayevitch Zhukov
Born (1938-01-22) 22 January 1938
Krasnogorsk, Russia
NationalityRussian
Alma materRussian State Historico-Archival Institute
Known forStalin-era research
Scientific career
FieldsHistory
InstitutionsInstitute of Russian History at Russian Academy of Sciences

Zhukov argued that Stalin was not personally responsible for the Great Purge and shifted the blame onto Jews[5] and subordinates of Stalin.[6][7] According to Zhukov, Stalin had conducted liberal reforms in the Soviet Union and launched the purges against real threats to Soviet security. Zhukov has also argued that by assuming sole power, Stalin had "saved the country and the world" from Lev Kamenev, Leon Trotsky, and Grigory Zinoviev, for in Zhukov's view their revolutionary politics brought the Soviet Union into conflict with the world.[8] Historian Gennady Kostyrchenko remarked that virtually all of Zhukov's most recent historical works have had the moral and political rehabilitation of Stalin as their overriding theme.[9]

Works
  • Yuri Zhukov. Secrets of Kremlin: Stalin, Molotov, Beria, Malenkov. Moscow, 2000, 688 pages, ISBN 5-300-02990-4
  • Yuri Zhukov. Different Stalin. USSR Political Reforms in 1933–1937, Moscow, 2003, 510 pages, ISBN 5-9697-0026-6
  • Yuri Zhukov. Stalin: Secrets of State Power, Moscow, 2008, 720 pages, ISBN 978-5-9697-0472-5
  • Yuri Zhukov. Handbook of Stalinist, Moscow, 2010, 320 pages, ISBN 978-5-699-40304-2
  • Yuri Zhukov. The Puzzle of 1937, Moscow, 2010, 576 pages, ISBN 978-5-699-46904-8
  • Yuri Zhukov. Stalin's First Defeat. 1917–1922. From Russian Empire to USSR., Moscow, 2011, 672 pages, ISBN 978-5-905024-02-3

References
  1. "Известный историк Юрий Жуков: Расстрелы в Катыни - сомнения остаются" [Renowned historian Yuri Zhukov: Executions in Katyn - doubts remain]. Komsomolskaya Pravda. 29 March 2011. Retrieved 26 October 2011.
  2. "Жуков Юрий Николаевич". Russian Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 26 October 2011.
  3. Parfitt, Tom (24 February 2006), "The real secret of Khrushchev's speech", The Guardian.
  4. "Private correspondent (Russian)". Chaskor.ru. Retrieved 2014-03-07.
  5. Reptiles against Jews (Russian), interview with Gennady Kostyrchenko
  6. Young, Cathy (17 March 2013), "Confronting Stalin's Legacy, 60 Years After His Death", Reason.
  7. Sommer, Tomasz; Chodakiewicz, Marek (January–February 2011), "Average Joe: The Return of Stalin Apologists", World Affairs .
  8. Litvin, Alter L.; Keep, John L. H. (2005), Stalinism: Russian and Western Views at the Turn of the Millennium, Totalitarian movements and political religions, Psychology Press, p. 48, ISBN 9780415351089
  9. Рептилии против евреев
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