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Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky (Russian: Михаил Николаевич Тухачевский, romanized: Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevskiy, IPA: [tʊxɐˈtɕefskʲɪj]; 16 February [O.S. 4 February] 1893 – 12 June 1937), nicknamed the Red Napoleon, was a Soviet general who was prominent between 1918 and 1937 as a military officer and ...
Jun 7, 2024 · Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Soviet military chief responsible for modernization of the Red Army prior to World War II. Tukhachevsky served with distinction in World War I, the Russian Civil War, and the Russo-Polish War.
The execution of Mikhail Tukhachevsky and his associates marked the start of a wave of large-scale purges in the Red Army, which affected tens of thousands of members of the officer corps.
Mikhail Tukhachevsky was a Soviet military leader, author and theoretician. He was one of the key leaders of the Red Army and was nicknamed ‘Red Napoleon’. Check out this biography to know about his life.
General Mikhail Tukhachevsky was arrested on May 22, 1937 and charged, along with seven other Red Army commanders, with the creation of a "right-wing- Trotskyist " military conspiracy and espionage for Nazi Germany, based on confessions obtained from other arrested officers.
Aristocrat persecutor of aristocrats. The descendant of a noble family, Mikhail Tukhachevsky fought against Czar’s supporters in Siberia and Southern Russia for Bolsheviks during the Civil war. He fell down from the pedestal of Soviet best military commander to the basements of Lubyanka to be executed for espionage and treason.
Few people today, excepting perhaps students of military and Soviet history, know much about the Soviet military officer Mikhail (Misha) Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky. Even those who have studied and written about his life find him difficult to characterize.
