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“Vasilevsky,” in Shukman (ed.),
Stalin’s Generals
.
    25 Krasnov,
Zhukov
, pp. 74–76.
    26 Zhukov,
Reminiscences
, vol. 1, p. 119.
    27 Ibid., pp. 136–39.
    28 Ibid., p. 141, 162.
    29 L. F. Minuk, “Komandir Divizii” in
Marshal Zhukov: Polkovodets i Chelovek
, vol. 1 (Moscow: APN, 1998), pp. 100–15.
    30 The two daughters’ memoirs may be found in ibid. See also the following interview with them: “Papa Chetverok ne Lyubil. Dnevnik Smotrel Pridirchivo,”
Izvestiya
, December 1, 2006. (I am grateful to Professor Stephen White for a copy of this article.)
    31 Zhukov,
Reminiscences
, pp. 171–74.
    32 M. Fainsod,
How Russia Is Ruled
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1963), p. 479.
    33 On Stalin’s prewar purge of the Red Army, see R. R. Reese, “The Impact of the Great Purge on the Red Army,”
The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review
, vol. 19, nos. 1–3, 1992, and R. R. Reese, “The Red Army and the Great Purges,” in J. A. Getty and R. T. Manning (eds.),
Stalinist Terror: New Perspectives
(Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1993); O. F.Suvenirov,
Tragediya RKKA, 1937–1938
(Moscow: Terra, 1998); P. P. Wieczorkiewicz,
Lancuch Smierci: Czystka w Armii Czerwonej, 1937–1939
(Warsaw: RYTM, 2001); and A. A. Pechenkii,
Voennaya Elita SSSR v 1935–1939gg: Repressii i Obnovlenie
(Moscow, 2003).
    34 The literature on the Great Terror is vast. A good documentary collection is: J. Arch Getty and O. V. Naumov (eds.),
The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932–1939
(New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1999).
    35 Zhukov,
Reminiscences
, vol. 1, p. 171.
    36 Zhukov
Vospominaniya
, vol. 1, chap. 6 passim.
    37 Cited by O. P. Chaney,
Zhukov
, rev. ed. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996), pp. 54–55.
    38 In the early 1990s evidence was published that Zhukov himself had made at least one accusation against a purge victim. However, it transpired the “G. Zhukov” named in the supposedly incriminating evidence was another Zhukov. See W. J. Spahr,
Zhukov: The Rise and Fall of a Great Captain
(Novato, Calif.: Presidio, 1993), pp. 234–35.
CHAPTER 4: KHALKHIN-GOL, 1939
    Â Â 1 The text of most of Voroshilov’s order is reproduced in V. Krasnov,
Zhukov: Marshal Velikoi Imperii
(Moscow: Olma-Press, 2005), p. 98. The original order, together with a number of other documents cited by Krasnov, was on display at an exhibition on Khalkhin-Gol in RGVA in Moscow in April 2010.
    Â Â 2 The letter is reproduced in E. Zhukova, “Interesy Ottsa,” in
Marshal Zhukov: Polkovodets i Chelovek
, vol. 1 (Moscow: APN, 1998), pp. 52–53. In his memoirs Zhukov wrote that he saw Voroshilov on June 2 and arrived in Mongolia on June 5. He also implies that he was sent to Khalkhin-Gol with a view to taking over command rather than just conducting an inspection. The documentary record shows otherwise. See Zhukov,
Reminiscences
, vol. 1, pp. 177–78.
    Â Â 3 See E. O. Clubb, “Armed Conflict in the Chinese Borderlands, 1917–1950,” in R. L. Garthoff (ed.),
Sino-Soviet Military Relations
(New York: Praeger, 1966); J. Colvin,
Nomonhan
(London: Quartet, 1999); and G. Lenson,
The Damned Inheritance: The Soviet Union and the Manchurian Crisis, 1924–1935
(Tallahassee, Fla.: Diplomatic Press, 1974).
    Â Â 4 J. Haslam,
The Soviet Union and the Threat from the East, 1933–1941
(London: Macmillan Press, 1992), pp. 93–94.
    Â Â 5 Krasnov,
Zhukov
, pp. 100–101.
    Â Â 6 Ibid., pp. 101–2.
    Â Â 7 V. Daines,
Zhukov
(Moscow: Molodaya Gvardia, 2005), p. 95.
    Â Â 8 Krasnov,
Zhukov
, pp. 112–14. This section of Krasnov’s book contains the text of a number of orders issued by Zhukov during this period. The originals (seen by me) may be found in RGVA, F. 32113, Op. 1, Dd. 3, 5.
    Â Â 9 Krasnov,
Zhukov
, pp. 118–20, cites the text of