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Faithful Companion: Chess in the Life of Marshal V.I. Chuikov
Pictured: An article written by A. Gurevich for the Soviet chess periodical 64, dated February 1975. The full text of the article is...
Apr 12, 20236 min read
Close Contact with Army General Chuikov
Pictured: General of the Army V.I. Chuikov with Soviet Foreign Minister A.Ya. Vyshinsky in East Germany, early 1950s. During my research...
Apr 2, 20234 min read
An Interview with the Commander
Pictured: Lieutenant-General V. I. Chuikov with his soldiers in Stalingrad on the banks of the Volga, late 1942 or early 1943. Famous...
Jan 2, 20233 min read
Flattening the Hierarchy: A Flexible Structure
Pictured: Twice Hero of the Soviet Union Colonel-General V. I. Chuikov (center) with General of the Army Andrey Yeremenko, 1945. Before...
Dec 12, 20223 min read
The Leader Who Manages
Lieutenant-General V. I. Chuikov, Stalingrad, summer 1942. When considering topics to write about for this blog, one guiding principle is...
Dec 2, 20222 min read
Reading Between the Lines: Strategic Communication with Colonel Lyudnikov
Pictured: Colonel Ivan Lyudnikov in Stalingrad; In the Commander's dugout, 62nd Army. From left to right: K. A. Gurov, V. I. Chuikov. N....
Nov 10, 20223 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,...
Oct 30, 20222 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...
Oct 22, 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),...
Oct 16, 20223 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...
Sep 19, 20225 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...
Sep 15, 20222 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...
Jul 13, 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...
Jun 22, 20223 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...
Jun 11, 20224 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...
May 30, 20222 min read
A Marshal’s Final Request
Pictured: Marshal Chuikov’s obituary; photo of his gravesite and special carnations, taken 23 March 2022. Marshal Chuikov was a leader...
May 20, 20222 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...
May 10, 20224 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...
May 7, 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,...
Apr 19, 20223 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....
Apr 19, 20222 min read