As well as the 100 People’s Liberation Army generals, Xi Jinping has purged hundreds of thousands of lesser military figures, ...

On June 11, 1937, by order of Joseph Stalin, Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky and seven other senior military officers were sentenced to death. They were convicted on trumped-up charges of anti-Soviet ...

Salmin later joined the staff of Marshal Tukhachevsky, Stalin’s hated rival. This might have been a death sentence, but he escaped by a miracle. Another Nikolai Salmin, a young chess player, was ...

Bluecher’s voice was too loud for Stalin. Recalled to Moscow, he was named one of eight judges in the court-martial of Tukhachevsky, duly joined in the death sentence.

However, in 1936, he, along with Soviet Marshal Tukhachevsky and other high officers of the Soviet army, was accused by the Stalin apparatus of having had treasonous dealings with the Nazi regime ...

Russia's record on military reform is checkered. Defeat in World War I generated innovations in mechanized warfare by Soviet theorists like General Mikhail Tukhachevsky in the 1930s.

With its arsenal depleted and its reputation battered in Ukraine, Russia must make hard choices to rebuild its military power.

Stalin had previously purged most of the officer corps, including Shostakovich’s friend and patron Marshall Mikhail Tukhachevsky. No wonder the Nazis rolled practically untouched right up to the ...

While Shostakovich was at work on the Fifth, one of his highest-ranking supporters, the Soviet general Mikhail Tukhachevsky, had been executed.

The control is ruthless: when a group of high army officers, led by Marshal Tukhachevsky, tried to throw off Chekist control in 1937, they were liquidated, along with some 30,000 regular career ...

In June of 1937, Stalin agreed to a purge of the Red Army. Eight military leaders, including Mikhail Tukhachevsky, were given a military trial and promptly executed after being accused of forming a ...