Word: zhukov
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Without this perspective, dispatches and headlines inevitably give the impression that the Russians stand to win all or lose all in their first winter offensives of 1942. The impression is not shared by the hard-eyed, hard-mouthed peasant, Communist and soldier, Army General Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov, who commands the drive on the Rzhev front and had much to do with planning the others...
...almost never read in Red Star or Pravda, a man whom they all knew as the Liubimets (the pet, the favorite, the darling, the beloved) of the Red Army. But it was Engineer Sosnovkin, thin and unimpressive in his grey overcoat, who had to tell the men what General Zhukov, the Liubimets, now wanted of them...
...peasant origin, solemn, brooding Georgy Zhukov joined the Red Army in 1915. His military career was unpublicized abroad until 1939, when he won recognition for effective use of tanks against the Jap on the Khalka River. In quick succession he became commander of the Kiev military district (1940), Chief of Staff of the Red Army (1941) then commander of the Moscow Front in October 1941, the hour of Moscow's greatest peril...
...Zhukov acquitted himself well, wearing down the Germans as he retreated until winter and reinforcements enabled him to counterattack and drive the enemy back. A poor mixer socially, Zhukov is about 46, bursting with energy, a strict disciplinarian and a firm believer in the importance of a high degree of troop mechanization backed by well-integrated communications, the latter a traditional Russian weakness...
Stalin picked him for his new post at a moment when Russia's needs on a nationwide scale were as great as those of Moscow when Zhukov held that front...