Georgy Zhukov's Role During World War II

Soldiers lacked weapons, food, and sufficient communication. As the war continued, unrest of the Russian people grew (Voglsinger). The Romanov family was not completely disconnected from the war. The Romanov daughters worked diligently in the hospital wing of the palace aiding wounded soldiers, as well as keeping them company while healing (Yudina). In the middle of the Revolution all of the children fell ill with the measles, Anastasia being the last to catch the illness. The children were alone with their mother while Nicholas II was at the General Headquarters in Mogilev (Yudina). While he was there, Nicholas received war reports and met with Nikolai Vladimirovich Ruzskii, a military leader (Raleigh). In attempt to not worry his family he hid the actual reason for being in Mogilev (Yudina). The Romanov family had been in control of Russia for three centuries until March 1917 when Nicholas II relinquished the throne hoping to prevent civil war (Biography.com). Following the abdication of the throne, Nicholas II returned to his family where they were under house arrest. In August the family decided it would be best to move to a small Siberian city, Tobolsk (Yudina). The family moved into their mansion and lived quiet lives rarely taking walks outside or to church. The Bolsheviks had taken control of Russia and Nicholas II was summoned to his trial in Moscow (Yudina). When Empress

The Tsar also made the mistake of going to fight in the war. The Tsar had very little military experience and was not qualified to lead the army. The Tsar was blamed for the millions of deaths in the war, as he was leading them.

In 1913, at the outbreak of World War I, he volunteered to serve in the German army and been selected though he still an Austrian citizen. In World War I, he was twice decorated for bravery receiving the Iron Cross First Class the Black Wound Badge. At that time, he was the rank of corporal. When

Prior to his rise to power, Joseph Stalin’s early life had a large impact on his future as a leader of the Soviet Union. Stalin was born into a dysfunctional family in Gori, Georgia on December 21, 1879 (Joseph Stalin pbs.org). His real name however, was Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili. Then changed his last name to Stalin because he combined the Russian word stal, which means steel, and Lenin, the name of the Soviet Union leader at the time (jewishvituallibrary.org). In keeping with his strong name, Stalin contracted and even survived smallpox at a young age, but with the only remaining evidence being a facial scar from where the smallpox where it had formed at. Stalin was sent to a seminary in Tiflis, now known as Tbilisi, to become a priest. However, Stalin never completed his education and soon became involved in the city’s active revolutionary circle ,

World War Two was filled with many different leaders, who all carried different leadership tactics that supported the efforts of the war in various ways. Two leaders that had a huge impact on the outcome of the war were Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler. These two leaders were most commonly known for their negative impact on society; however, I am choosing to compare the good that these two leaders did for their country during their time in leadership.

Trotsky military leadership was essential for the victory of the reds. He was appointed as Commissar of War by Lenin, and was given the task of organising and army Trotsky excelled in his job. He rebuilt, trained and transformed the Red Army into a formidable, fighting force. The red army was initially too small and lacked the discipline Russia needed therefore Trotsky set to

After the Second World War ended, when Canada and her Allies were still celebrating victory over Germany, a young Russian cipher clerk named Igor Gouzenko walked out of the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa with secret papers stuffed under his shirt and headed straight for the offices of a city newspaper. His unprecedented action would awaken the people of North America to the magnitude and the danger of Soviet espionage and change the course of the twentieth century. Gouzenko was the beginning of the Cold War for public opinion and he did play a role in Canada’s involvement in the war, however, Canada became directly involved in the Cold War due to communist fears, nuclear choices, and ties to a superpower.

Peter the Great is known as one of the greatest persons in Russian history. Peter the Great focused on Math and Science, so his troops would be notified in angles, navigation, and engineering. Many Russian people would say that Peter the Great was a great military and naval leader. He leads the Russian army and navy. Peter the Great was the fourth

Ivan III the Great, the Grand Prince of Moscow was especially successful in this task, conquering Novgorod, Tver and Pskov, thus tripling Moscow’s territory after completely defeating the Mongols. Eventually, through warfare, politics and marriages the Grand Princes of Moscow claimed to be the undisputed and autocratic rulers of the entire Russian territory, with total control of economic, military and foreign affairs, which are now commonly called tsars. Ivan IV the Terrible, was the first Russian ruler to crown himself “Tsar”. Despite the fact that Ivan the Terrible had many positive characteristics, he totally deserved the name “terrible”, which was given to him by the people. Although Ivan the Terrible was a well educated and intelligent, and has conquered large new territories for the Russian Empire, he is remembered as a cruel and heartless man, who held all of Russia in great

Tsar Nicholas II took over as commander in chief during World War I, replacing Grand Duke Nicholas after the great retreat of the Russian army. This was a huge mistake on his part as it meant that all blame for anything that went wrong was directly placed on him. He was already

On the 8th of April, Lenin appointed Trotsky as Minister for War. Shortly after Trotsky introduced conscription and obtained the numbers to overcome the Whites, the Red Army had a total of 3 million men by 1920. Trotsky's disciplinary actions paid off with the Red Army being able to launch a counter-attack, driving the enemy back. Thus, with Trotsky's other military success of the Bolshevik Revolution and the support from within the Army, Trotsky took on another major feature of his life, the Civil War and successfully created Red Army into victory, as well as consolidating his power by being made Commissar for War.

Winston Churchill undoubtedly came the closest in describing Marshall 's importance in the war effort when Churchill cabled Washington late in the war: "He is the true ‘organizer of victory’” (Ellwood, 2006). In 1939, Gen Marshall became the Chief of Staff

On March 2nd of 1931, Mikhail Gorbachev was born unto a Russian-Ukrainian peasant family in the village of Privolnoye, Russia. He grew up in a time of political unrest, and when he was a young boy, his maternal grandfather was arrested during the Great Purge. Pantelei Gopkalo was one of over a million Russian people who were arrested and tortured as suspected enemies of Stalinist Russia. Luckily, he spent only 14 months detained and was not executed, but the trauma of this event weighed on Mikhail. His family was, otherwise, by no means well off, but his father, Sergei Gorbachev, operated various farm machinery for a living, until the summer of 1941, when the Nazis invaded the USSR.

Carl Von Clausewitz is one of the most well known, as well as important, war theorists in our history. Although he has been dead for almost two decades, he still plays a major role in shaping military thinkers around the world. The reason his theory is somehow still relevant is because of its flexibility. He did not prepare for nuclear warfare or cyber warfare, but you can apply his theory to the 21st century. Clausewitz believed in two levels of war and that war was continuous. Clausewitz believed that when one goes to war, they should have an achievable political objective; "war is the continuation of politics by other means” (Clausewitz, 1832).

Joseph Stalin was a cunning and adroit politician and a stalwart leader for the Soviet Union.