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New Light On Old Stories About Marshal Tukhachevskii: Some Documents Reconsidered

New Light On Old Stories About Marshal Tukhachevskii: Some Documents Reconsidered GROVER C. FURR III (Montclair, N. J., U. S. A.) NEW LIGHT ON OLD STORIES ABOUT MARSHAL TUKHACHEVSKII: SOME DOCUMENTS RECONSIDERED* The innocence of Marshal Tukhachevskii and the oth- er military commanders condemned with him in 1937 has become firmly accepted by both Soviet and Western historians.1 The current scholarly consensus also in- cludes the view that "the Nazi secret archives contain no sort of evidence of anything" like a plot between the So- . viet military and Germany, that "not a jot of evidence has emerged from the German archives."2 The present . article re-examines some of the material bearing upon the Tukhachevskii case which has come to light so far from the captured German Foreign Office files, and corn- *1 would like to thank Professor J. Arch Getty. of the University of California at Riverside. and Professor S. G. Wheatcroft, of the University of Melbourne. who read and commented upon earlier versions of this ani- cle. Naturally they are not responsible for any shortcomings it, still con- , toms. 1. Khrushchev's "secret 8peech° to the Tweatieth Congress of the CPSU (February, 1956) attacked Stalin for his "annihilation of many military commonder8° after 1937, but did not http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Russian History Brill

New Light On Old Stories About Marshal Tukhachevskii: Some Documents Reconsidered

Furr, Grover C.
Russian History , Volume 13 (1): 293 – Jan 1, 1986
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© 1986 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0094-288X
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10.1163/187633186X00115
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GROVER C. FURR III (Montclair, N. J., U. S. A.) NEW LIGHT ON OLD STORIES ABOUT MARSHAL TUKHACHEVSKII: SOME DOCUMENTS RECONSIDERED* The innocence of Marshal Tukhachevskii and the oth- er military commanders condemned with him in 1937 has become firmly accepted by both Soviet and Western historians.1 The current scholarly consensus also in- cludes the view that "the Nazi secret archives contain no sort of evidence of anything" like a plot between the So- . viet military and Germany, that "not a jot of evidence has emerged from the German archives."2 The present . article re-examines some of the material bearing upon the Tukhachevskii case which has come to light so far from the captured German Foreign Office files, and corn- *1 would like to thank Professor J. Arch Getty. of the University of California at Riverside. and Professor S. G. Wheatcroft, of the University of Melbourne. who read and commented upon earlier versions of this ani- cle. Naturally they are not responsible for any shortcomings it, still con- , toms. 1. Khrushchev's "secret 8peech° to the Tweatieth Congress of the CPSU (February, 1956) attacked Stalin for his "annihilation of many military commonder8° after 1937, but did not

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Published: Jan 1, 1986

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