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Yuri Zhukov (historian)

Yuri Nikolayevich Zhukov (Russian: Юрий Николаевич Жуков; 22 January 1938 – 3 March 2023)[1] was a Russian historian[2] and researcher at the Institute of Russian History at the Russian Academy of Sciences.[3] Zhukov published several books that glorify Joseph Stalin, such as Renaissance of Stalin and Handbook of a Stalinist.[4]

Yuri Zhukov
Юрий Жуков
Born(1938-01-22)22 January 1938
Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died3 March 2023(2023-03-03) (aged 85)
NationalityRussian
Alma materRussian State Historico-Archival Institute
Known forStalin-era research
Scientific career
FieldsHistory
InstitutionsInstitute of Russian History at Russian Academy of Sciences

Historical views

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Zhukov argued that Stalin was not personally responsible for the Great Purge and shifted the blame onto Jews[5] and subordinates of Stalin.[6] 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.[7]

Reception

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Russian historian Oleg Khlevniuk described Zhukov as a follower of ideas developed by American revisionist historian Arch Getty according to whom Stalin was not a cruel dictator, but a supporter of democracy.[8] In a 2011 article for World Affairs, Marek Jan Chodakiewicz and Tomasz Sommer listed Zhukov, among others, as an example of historians which have been embraced by "Stalin apologists".[6] In a 2012 Literaturnaya Gazeta interview, historian Gennady Kostyrchenko stated that virtually all of Zhukov's most recent historical works have had the moral and political rehabilitation of Stalin as their overriding theme.[9] Writing for Reason in 2013, journalist Cathy Young described Zhukov as a "pro-Stalin historian".[10] Zhukov criticized the speech by Krushchev about Stalinism by commenting that "Khrushchev was trying to dump all the blame on Stalin when his own hands were drenched in blood".[11]

Works

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  • Zhukov, Yuri (2000). Secrets of Kremlin: Stalin, Molotov, Beria, Malenkov. Moscow. p. 688. ISBN 5-300-02990-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Zhukov, Yuri (2003). Different Stalin. USSR Political Reforms in 1933–1937. Moscow. p. 510. ISBN 5-9697-0026-6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Zhukov, Yuri (2008). Stalin: Secrets of State Power. Moscow. p. 720. ISBN 978-5-9697-0472-5.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Zhukov, Yuri (2010). Handbook of a Stalinist. Moscow. p. 320. ISBN 978-5-699-40304-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Zhukov, Yuri (2010). The Puzzle of 1937. Moscow. p. 576. ISBN 978-5-699-46904-8.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Zhukov, Yuri (2011). Stalin's First Defeat. 1917–1922. From Russian Empire to USSR. Moscow. p. 672. ISBN 978-5-905024-02-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

References

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  1. ^ Умер историк Юрий Жуков (in Russian)
  2. ^ Baranet, Victor (29 March 2011). "Izvestnyy istorik Yuriy Zhukov: Rasstrely v Katyni – somneniya ostayutsya" Известный историк Юрий Жуков: Расстрелы в Катыни – сомнения остаются [Renowned historian Yuri Zhukov: executions in Katyn – doubts remain]. Komsomolskaya Pravda. Retrieved 26 October 2011.
  3. ^ Parfitt, Tom (24 February 2006). "The real secret of Khrushchev's speech". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 August 2021..
  4. ^ Dragunsky, Denis; Gelman, Alexander; Golubovsky, Anatoly; Gordon, Yuri; Gudkov, Lev; Kolesnikov, Andrei; Kuzhavsky, Sergei; Mezin, Nikolai; Oeshkin, Dmitry; Popov, Evgeny; Rogov, Kirill; Serov, Sergei; Shcherbina, Tatyana; Shifrin, Efim; Zasursky, Ivan; Zhitsky, Stas (15 April 2011). "Otkrytoye pis'mo V direktsiyu izdatel'stva "EKSMO"" Открытое письмо В дирекцию издательства «ЭКСМО» [Open letter to the management of the publishing house 'EKSMO']. Chaskor (in Russian). Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  5. ^ Reptiles against Jews (Russian), interview with Gennady Kostyrchenko
  6. ^ a b Chodakiewicz, Marek Jan; Sommer, Tomasz (January–February 2011). "Average Joe: The Return of Stalin Apologists". World Affairs. 173 (5). SAGE Publications: 75–82. JSTOR 41059517.
  7. ^ Keep, John L. H.; Litvin, Alter L. (2005). Stalinism: Russian and Western Views at the Turn of the Millennium. Totalitarian movements and political religions. Hove: Psychology Press. p. 48. ISBN 9780415351089.
  8. ^ Historical forgeries (Russian), by Oleg Khlevniuk, Lenta.ru (lenta.ru/articles/2015/08/29/bioleader/)
  9. ^ Lebedev, Nikolay; Zaitseva, Yana (26 July 2012). "Reptilii protiv yevreyev" Рептилии против евреев [Reptiles against Jews]. Jewish.ru (in Russian). Global Jewish Online Center. Archived from the original on 28 July 2012. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  10. ^ Young, Cathy (17 March 2013). "Confronting Stalin's Legacy, 60 Years After His Death". Reason. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  11. ^ Parfitt, Tom (24 February 2006). "The real secret of Khrushchev's speech". The Guardian.
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