biography
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Tukhachevsky, Mikhail Nikolayevich
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pronunciation:
[tookachefskee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1893–1937)
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| biography:
| Russian soldier and politician, born near Slednevo, W Russia. He served in the Tsarist Army in World War 1, but became a member of the Communist Party in 1918. He commanded Bolshevik forces against the Poles in the Russo-Polish War (1920), against the White Russians (1919–20), and during the Kulak uprising of 1921. He served on the commission on military invention (1922), and was chief of armaments (1931). He is renowned for his work on tactical doctrine, notably on tank warfare. Appointed to the Military Soviet in 1934, he was created Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1935, but was later executed for treason during Stalin's purge of Red Army officers. |
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