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...Commissar Trotsky set about building a peacetime defense force out of the revolutionary Red army, he had revolt on his hands. He was able to form a general staff, training and technical commands out of a nucleus of experienced ex-Imperial army officers, among whom was the future Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky. The old irregulars objected to being educated. Georgy Zhukov was an exception. When the chance came for a military course at Moscow's Frunze Academy, he grabbed it. Chief of Staff Boris Shaposhnikov thought him "somewhat slow," but sent him off to Germany to study under General...
...Nine Lives in the Red Army are brutal autobiographies of ex-Communists which make few of the usual apologies for their authors' past. N. M. Borodin, who went over to the British when he finally found himself in a tight spot in 1948, was a Cossack scientist. Mikhail Soloviev, who in World War II became a leader of the resistance fighting both the Germans and the Communists in White Russia, started out as a nimble-footed military journalist skilled in all the slippery tricks of Mos cow intrigue. Their stories, nightmarish documentaries of Communist Russia's bureaucratic life...
...NINE LIVES IN THE RED ARMY (308 pp.)-Mikhail Soloviev...
From Bukharin to Bulganin. Mikhail Soloviev, author of My Nine Lives in the Red Army and a novel called When the Gods Are Silent (TIME, Jan. 5, 1953), was once military correspondent for Izvestia, where he learned to find his way safely among the Red army's biggest monsters. He too can tell shocking stories about the secret police-about the porcine Chekist who ravaged a whole Cossack village but lost his own life when attacked by five cavalrymen after killing its last naked, crazed peasant; about the Communist who had the girl who jilted him arrested...
...jostling little cluster of Soviet leaders to show that there was none of what Malenkov called "panic and disarray." Some executions were inevitable. But significantly, they were all among the secret police: first Lavrenty Beria, Minister for the Interior, pulled down from his high place and shot; then Mikhail Ryumin, Deputy Minister of State Security. Last Christmas Eve it was Viktor Abakumov, former Minister of State Security, and three of his aides. All were identified with the "Beria plot" and the equally mysterious and never explained "doctors' plot" against the army (Vasilevsky, Shtemenko, Konev). Even the now deposed Malenkov...