Stalin's General by Geoffrey Roberts

379–80.
    39 RGVA, F. 41107, Op. 1, D. 54, L. 57.
    40
Na Priyome u Stalina
, pp. 343–45.
    41
Russkii Arkhiv
, vol. 13 (2), Prikazy Narodnogo Komissara Oborony SSSR, 22 Iunya 1941g–1942g, doc. 36.
    42 Stavka VGK: Dokumenty i Materialy 1941 god, doc. 168.
    43 Ibid., doc. 10, p. 361.
    44 Stavka VGK: Dokumenty i Materialy 1941 god, doc. 255.
    45 Cited by A. M. Vasilevsky,
A Lifelong Cause
(Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1981), p. 110.
    46 Stavka VGK: Dokumenty i Materialy 1941 god, doc. 280.
    47 Ibid., doc. 130.
    48 Zhukov,
Reminiscences
, vol. 1, p. 383.
    49 Stavka VGK: Dokumenty i Materialy 1941 god, doc. 15, pp. 365–66.
    50 H. C. Cassidy,
Moscow Dateline
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1943), p. 123. For Werth’s account of the visit, see A. Werth,
Russia at War, 1941–1945
(London: Pan, 1965), pp. 188–95.
    51 Cited by Glantz,
Barbarossa
, pp. 90–91.
    52 Cited by V. Krasnov,
Zhukov: Marshal Velikoi Imperii
(Moscow: Olma-Press, 2000), pp. 210–12.
    53 Zhukov,
Vospominaniya
, vol. 1, pp. 304–5.
    54 RGVA, F. 41107, Op. 1, D. 17, Ll. 1–50. This fifty-page typescript, entitled “Nachal’nyi Period Velikoi Otechestvennoi Voiny” (The Initial Period of the Great Patriotic War), is a variant chapter of his memoirs. The citations are from pp. 38–41 of the document. This file contains a number of such documents, including several handwritten fragments.
    55 Ibid., p. 265.
CHAPTER 7: STALIN’S GENERAL
    Â Â 1
Na Priyome u Stalina
(Moscow: Novyi Khronograf, 2008), pp. 614–15.
    Â Â 2 The summary of Zhukov’s view of Stalin is drawn from Zhukov,
Reminiscences
, vol. 1, chap. 11. When the Soviet regime came to an end, thischapter was more than a little embarrassing for his publishers, who wanted to present Zhukov as an anti-Stalinist, so they began adding an editorial note pointing out that Zhukov’s treatment of Stalin was in accordance with the “spirit of the times” (Zhukov,
Vospominaniya
, vol. 2, p. 73).
    Â Â 3 See, for example, “Korotko o Staline,”
Pravda
, January 20, 1989.
    Â Â 4
Russkii Arkhiv: Velikaya Otechestvennaya Voina, 1941–1945
, vol. 16 (1), Stavka VGK: Dokumenty i Materialy 1941 god (Moscow: Terra, 1996), doc. 82.
    Â Â 5 Ibid., doc. 83.
    Â Â 6 Cited by N. Lomagin,
Neizvestnaya Blokada
, vol. 1 (Moscow: Olma-Press, 2002), p. 63.
    Â Â 7 Zhukov,
Reminiscences
, vol. 1, pp. 398–401. In another version of the story in the archives Zhukov gives the date of his meeting with Stalin as September 7 and says that Stalin asked him where he wanted to go next. He suggested Leningrad or the southwest. When Stalin decided to send him to Leningrad, Zhukov suggested Timoshenko for the Southwestern Front command. RGVA, F. 41107, Op. 1, D. 54, L. 58.
    Â Â 8 Zhukov,
Reminiscences
, vol. 1, pp. 417–18.
    Â Â 9
Na Priyome u Stalina
, p. 349.
    10 Stavka VGK: Dokumenty i Materialy 1941, docs. 252, 253.
    11 Extracts from the Feduninskii and Bychevskii memoirs may be found in S. Bialer,
Stalin and His Generals: Soviet Military Memoirs of World War II
(London: Souvenir Press, 1970).
    12 Cited in D. M. Glantz,
The Battle for Leningrad, 1941–1944
(Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002), p. 76.
    13 Ibid., pp. 81–82.
    14 Cited by Ella Zhukova, “Interesy Ottsa,” in I. G. Aleksandrov (ed.),
Marshal Zhukov: Polkovodets i Chelovek
(Moscow: APN, 1988), pp. 54–55.
    15 Glantz,
The Battle for Leningrad
, p. 83; J. Erickson, “Zhukov,” in M. Carver (ed.),
The War Lords: Military Commanders of the Twentieth Century
(Barnsley, U.K.: Pen & Sword, 2005), p. 250; E. Mawdsley,
Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War, 1941–1945
(London: Hodder Arnold, 2005), pp. 84–85; V. Beshanov,
Leningradskaya Oborona
(Minsk: Kharvest, 2006), pp. 124–25.
    16 Stavka VGK: Dokumenty i Materialy 1941, doc. 339.
    17 On the siege of Leningrad, see Harrison E. Salisbury’s