Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky, nicknamed the Red Napoleon, was a Soviet general who was prominent between 1918 and 1937 as a military officer and theoretician. He was later executed during the show trials of 1936–38.
Tukhachevsky circa 1935
The Tukhachevsky family in 1904
Tukhachevsky in 1920
Polish soldiers displaying captured Soviet battle flags after the Battle of Warsaw in 1920
The Moscow trials were a series of show trials held by the Soviet Union between 1936 and 1938 at the instigation of Joseph Stalin. They were nominally directed against "Trotskyists" and members of the "Right Opposition" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.The "Case of the Trotskyite–Zinovievite Terrorist Center" ;
The "Case of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center" ; and
The "Case of the Anti-Soviet 'Bloc of Rightists and Trotskyites'".
Prosecutor General Vyshinsky (centre), reading the indictment, in 1937