This innovative study examines the early years of the Red Army as
it developed from a revolutionary partisan force into a modern,
professional institution under the leadership of Mikhail
Tukhachevsky, an important and controversial figure in the politics
of the Stalin period. Sally Stoecker combines her institutional
analysis of the formative period of the Soviet military with an
astute look at the person and political maneuvers of Marshal
Tukhachevsky and his complex relationship with Stalin, which
eventually led to his spectacular downfall and execution in the
Great Terror of the late 1930s.Based on newly available archival
materials, the book will be welcomed not only by military
historians but also by Russian historians for the light it sheds on
a vital area of Soviet political history.
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