Mikhail Tukhachevsky: The Red Napoleon

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. Previous Video:    • Spartan761's Fireside Chat 2024: A Real an...   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, https://www.marxists.org/archive/leni... Tukhachevsky’s Report on the Armed Forces: https://diletant.media/articles/37236... 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