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Mikhail Tukhachevsky, in full Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky, (born February 16 [February 4, Old Style], 1893, near Slednevo, Russia—died June 11, 1937), Soviet military chief responsible for modernization of the Red Army prior to World War II. Tukhachevsky was born to a noble family and graduated from the Alexandrovskoe Military Academy ...

TUKHACHEVSKY, MIKHAIL NIKOLAYEVICH. (1893 – 1937), prominent Soviet military figure; strategist, commander, weapons procurer. Mikhail Tukhachevsky is one of the most important and controversial figures in the history of the Soviet armed forces.

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’. He led the Soviet Union and ‘Red Army' to many victories. He is said to have led the modernization efforts of the military before Russia entered World War I (WWI).

Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky (Russian: Михаи́л Никола́евич Тухаче́вский; February 16 [O.S. February 4] 1893 – June 12, 1937) was a Marshal of the Soviet Union, commander in chief of the Red Army (1925–1928), and one of the most prominent victims of Joseph Stalin 's Great Purge. Contents 1 Early life 2 During the Civil War

Mikhail Tukhachevsky. The most controversial Soviet military leader. He was a war hero of the Civil War, a great theorist and reformer of the Red Army. His conflict with Stalin resulted in his prosecution and death sentence on fabricated charges. Lived: 1893-1937. Tukhachevsky was born in an aristocratic family.

Croll, Neil Harvey (2002) Mikhail Tukhachevsky in the Russian Civil War. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow. Full text available as: PDF Download (33MB) | Preview Printed Thesis Information: https://eleanor.lib.gla.ac.uk/record=b2142198 Abstract Much has been written about Mikhail Nikolaevich Tukhachevsky.

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.

Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky (1893 - 1937) nicknamed the Red Napoleon by foreign newspapers, was prominent between 1918 and 1937 as a Soviet military officer and theoretician. After service in World War I of 1914 - 1917 and in the Russian Civil War of 1917-1923, from 1920 to 1921 he commanded the Soviet Western Front in the Polish–Soviet ...