The change of epochs always changes the approach to history andrequires a revision of views on the usual things. Therefore, as a given, there is a need for new scientists, a rethinking of events and approaches that are diametrically different from previous ones.
Any historical investigation can becomethe product of propaganda in the hands of the authorities, therefore, to more or less objectively shed light on events, it is necessary to thoroughly test the political truth in the archives of different countries.
Getting acquainted with primary sources, it is necessary notjust give out the facts, but also carefully analyze each document and take into account all the realities of that time. Everyone who is interested in history, trying to understand the past and its influence on the course of events in the future, turn to various monographs and articles. The works of "new historians" are of particular demand, which in their works are based on archival sources and give the material as informatively as possible. One of such historiographers in modern Russia is Yuri Nikolayevich Zhukov, whose books give an ambiguous idea of the history of the Soviet era.
Zhukov Yuri Nikolaevich is a historian whose books arouse the interest not only of ordinary citizens, but also became a material for studying the history of the Soviet period in higher educational institutions.
Chief Researcher of the Russian Academy of Sciences and DoctorHe graduated from the Historical and Archival Institute and initially worked as a journalist. After defending his doctoral dissertation in 1976, he devoted himself to studying the problems of Russian history in the first half of the 20th century. He worked in the archives for more than 20 years and created unique works, because he managed to shed light on many controversial issues of a rather difficult period and no less interesting personality of V. Stalin. He was the first to reveal many "dark" spots - the murder of Kirov, the plot against Stalin. Zhukov Yuri Nikolayevich is a historian who managed to debunk more than one myth of the historical past. According to him, "direct lie" thoroughly ingrained not only in the minds of citizens, but also firmly established in science and journalism.
Zhukov Yuri in the work "Secrets of the Kremlin ..."On the basis of archival sources discovered many unknown pages of Russian history, described the largest representatives of power, their policy in the field of defense, finance and industry. Stalin, Beria, Molotov and Malenkov became the main characters of these journalistic works.
A separate place in his research is devoted tothe contradictoriness of NEP policy, which the historian considers the cause of the protracted crisis, he highlighted the "internal political struggle" in the country. The book "The Back of the NEP" is designed for a wide range of readers and helps to understand the key reasons for the long economic stagnation.
A special place in the history of the doctorhistorical sciences occupies the personality of the great leader - VI Stalin. This man firmly entered the history of the twentieth century, which led to the emergence of many different theories and rumors in all echelons of power. The number of books and monographs devoted to Stalin is colossal, but, strangely enough, he is given a negative description and shows him as a cruel and unprincipled leader.
Zhukov Yuri Nikolayevich - scientist and publicist,who managed to approach objectively as much as possible to the illumination of the personality of the symbol of an entire epoch. He describes him as a ruler who took into account the national interests of the new country and developed a whole course of its development. Political confrontation in the state apparatus between the ruling regime and the opposition became the main object of the historian's research.
Zhukov Yuri Nikolayevich in his works,dedicated to the events of the 20-50s, used a number of classified archival documents, presented an absolutely non-standard version of events in the Soviet Union. In the books "Other Stalin" and "To be Proud, Not to Repent" the readers have discovered a completely different side of the bloody and gloomy period. Great emphasis is placed on the root causes of the brutal terror that took place in the 1930s. The author managed to expose most of the state apparatus and the "necessity" of repression by Stalin.
The burning issue of Jewry also did not passthe scientific activity of the author. Soviet and Russian historian Zhukov Yuri Nikolayevich speaks about Jews in the light of the struggle for power that took place after Lenin's death. He claims that the Stalinist repression stopped at the moment when the Jews were no longer in the NKVD. L. Trotsky and his entourage were the main rivals of Stalin. Zhukov Yuri Nikolayevich unequivocally asserts that the coming to power of the proteges of the Jew Rothschild would lead to the destruction of the Soviet Union still in the bud, and the history itself would have gone a very different way.
As you can see, Zhukov Yu.N. - the person is ambiguous. Most Russians do not support his views on the historical events of the "Great Terror". But his opinion also has a right to exist.
