Zhukov has also argued that by assuming sole power, Stalin had "saved the country and the world" from Lev Kamenev, Leon Trotsky, and Grigory Zinoviev, for in Zhukov's view their revolutionary politics brought the Soviet Union into conflict with the world.
[7] Russian historian Oleg Khlevniuk described Zhukov as a follower of ideas developed by American revisionist historian Arch Getty according to whom Stalin was not a cruel dictator, but a supporter of democracy.
[8] In a 2011 article for World Affairs, Marek Jan Chodakiewicz and Tomasz Sommer listed Zhukov, among others, as an example of historians which have been embraced by "Stalin apologists".
[6] In a 2012 Literaturnaya Gazeta interview, historian Gennady Kostyrchenko stated that virtually all of Zhukov's most recent historical works have had the moral and political rehabilitation of Stalin as their overriding theme.
[9] Writing for Reason in 2013, journalist Cathy Young described Zhukov as a "pro-Stalin historian".