He served in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War. During World War II, Zhukov oversaw some of the Red Army's most decisive victories.īorn to a poor peasant family from central Russia, Zhukov was conscripted into the Imperial Russian Army and fought in World War I. He also served as Chief of the General Staff, Minister of Defence, and was a member of the Presidium of the Communist Party (later Politburo).
Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov (Russian: Георгий Константинович Жуков, IPA: ( listen) 1 December 1896 – 18 June 1974) was a Soviet general and Marshal of the Soviet Union.
