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Oct 30, 20222 min read
A Patriotic Publishing Partnership
Pictured: Marshal V. I. Chuikov with I. G. Paderin (left), 1964. When I began researching Marshal Chuikov’s life and work in early 2020,...
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Oct 22, 20223 min read
Operation Anadyr: Selecting the Command Staff
Identifying the best person for a particular position is known in HR terms as employee placement . Organizational management success...
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Oct 16, 20223 min read
An Authentically Approachable Hero
Pictured: Colonel-General V. I. Chuikov hunting in Germany, accompanied by his daughter Irina and his sister-in-law Vera (wife of Fedor),...
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Sep 19, 20225 min read
Marshal Chuikov’s Effective Leadership, Part 1: Path-Goal Theory
Pictured: Colonel-General V. I. Chuikov, Commander of the 62nd-8th Guards Army, 1943. Over the past year, I have shared various anecdotes...
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Sep 15, 20222 min read
Protodyakonov--A Hero without a Title
Pictured: Marshal V. I. Chuikov (center) flanked by G. D. Protodyakonov to the left, and Soviet sniper V. Zaitsev and Yakov Pavlov (of...
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Jul 13, 20223 min read
The Summer of 1942...
Pictured: Lieutenant-General V. I. Chuikov, Stalingrad, 1943. Eighty-two years ago, during the summer of 1942, the Germans were engaged...
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Jun 22, 20223 min read
When the Germans Invaded the Soviet Union in 1941…
Pictured from left to right: adviser N.T. Fedorenko, military attaché N. V. Roshchin (Ruzankov), plenipotentiary A. S. Panyushkin, chief...
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Jun 11, 20224 min read
Taking the Fortress at Poznan, Poland
Pictured: Colonel-General V. I. Chuikov, Poland, 1945. In a previous blog entry, I focused on the supply chain situation leading up to...
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May 30, 20222 min read
Conflict on the Chinese Eastern Railway, 1929
Pictured: Group of military advisors in China, 1927. V. I. Chuikov is seated third from left, bottom row. In a previous blog entry , I...
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May 10, 20224 min read
Chuikov's Order to End the Berlin Blockade
Pictured: General of the Army V. I. Chuikov and the President of the German Democratic Republic Wilhelm Pieck during Pieck’s 75th...
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May 7, 20223 min read
A Demotion and a Life Lesson
Pictured: Lieutenant-General V. I. Chuikov, Commander of the 62nd Army in Stalingrad, 1942. As a professor of business and leadership...
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Apr 19, 20223 min read
Chuikov and Khrushchev: An Uneasy Relationship
Pictured: Commander of the 62nd Army of the Stalingrad Front, Lieutenant-General V. I. Chuikov; Commander of the 64th Army,...
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Apr 19, 20222 min read
Torgau and Tempelhof: 25-26 April 1945
Pictured (clockwise): Photo of American and Red Army officers and soldiers meeting on the Elbe River near Torgau; Colonel-General V. I....
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Apr 16, 20222 min read
Leadership and Rulership: Noting the Difference
Pictured: Anatoly Merezhko at the age of 20 in 1941, a year before his participation in the battle for Stalingrad; A. Merezhko (far...
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Apr 14, 20225 min read
A Letter, a Book, and a Battle
Pictured: Handwritten letter from Lieutenant-General V. I. Chuikov to his wife; Cover art for a book commemorating the 62nd Army and the...
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Apr 11, 20225 min read
A Character Assassination Attempt and a Rebuttal
Pictured: Colonel-General Chuikov’s 62nd (8th Guards) Army on the streets of Odessa in April 1944. A large group of Soviet soldiers,...
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Apr 7, 20222 min read
Empathetic Leadership and Advocacy
Pictured: Commemorative badge and citation honoring veterans of the 62nd (8th Guards) Army presented to Polycarp Dmitrievich Ovchinnikov,...
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Apr 5, 20222 min read
The Beginning of the Path Is the Battle for Stalingrad
Pictured: Cover of The Beginning of the Path ( Nachalo Puti ); reviews for Marshal Chuikov’s books (in a Russian language publication...
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Apr 1, 20224 min read
Chuikov and Rodimtsev: Rivals or Friends?
Pictured: The Military Council of the 62nd Army, along with Major-General A. I. Rodimtsev (top photo, second from right; bottom photo,...
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Mar 26, 20222 min read
On the Marshal's Desk: Part 2
Pictured: Personal effects from Marshal V. I. Chuikov's office gifted by his family to the Museum of the Cadet Corps of the Investigative...
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