This video is about Mikhail Tukhachevsky, one of the first Marshals of the Soviet Union who was purged by Stalin. He lived a very colourful life overall, and was very fun to learn more about during the making of this video.
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Sauces:
Blackstock, Paul W. “The Tukhachevsky Affair.” The Russian Review 28:2 (1969): 171–90.
Bury, Jan. “Polish Codebreaking During the Russo-Polish War of 1919-1920.” Cryptologia 28:3 (2004): 193-203
Davies, Norman. “Izaak Babel"s ‘Konarmiya’ Stories, and the Polish-Soviet War.” The Modern Language Review 67:4 (1972): 845–57.
Davies, Norman. “The Soviet Command and the Battle of Warsaw.” Soviet Studies 23:4 (1972): 573–85.
FURR, GROVER C. “NEW LIGHT ON OLD STORIES ABOUT MARSHAL TUKHACHEVSKII: SOME DOCUMENTS RECONSIDERED.” Russian History 13:2/3 (1986): 293–308.
McPadden, Christopher Paul. “Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky (1893–1937):
Practitioner and Theorist of War.” The Land Warfare Papers 56 (2006).
Stone, David R. “Tukhachevsky in Leningrad: Military Politics and Exile, 1928-31.” Europe-Asia Studies 48:8 (1996): 1365–86.
Others:
Lenin, Vladimir I. “Telegram to J.V. Stalin (1920).” in Marxists Internet Archive, accessed 6 December 2023, [ Ссылка ]
Tukhachevsky’s Report on the Armed Forces: [ Ссылка ]
Also special thanks to Russian Wikipedia for actually having some information on his Siberian campaign and most of his actions during the civil war.
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:59 The Red Prince
3:19 The Red Soldier
6:36 The Red General
12:53 The Part Where Kolchak Dies
15:54 The Bigger Concerns in Question
18:07 The Rider Named War
21:14 The Red Clown Car
32:26 The Red Marshal
42:06 The Red Napoleon
46:24 The End and the Death
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