Word: mikhail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...correspondents with every branch of the Red Fleet and with every army commander in the field. (At least 50 Russian press correspondents have been killed at the fronts.) And when it wants to, Pravda can draw on the best of contemporary Russian writers: Gregory Riklin, Mikhail Sholokhov, Konstantin Simonov. The staff writer best known in the U.S. is the one who has most often criticized U.S. citizens: David Iosifovich Zaslavsky, author of Pravda's recent cracks at Wendell Willkie (TIME, Jan. 17), at William Randolph Hearst for "spilling poisoned ink," at the New York Times's Military Expert...
...Voronov became boss of Red artillery. This was 1937-the year of the great Army purge, of unease and turbulence. Mikhail Tukhachevsky had been "liquidated," and his death left a vacuum in leadership and military thought. Unostentatiously, Voronov moved into the gap. He tightened discipline, increased the number of artillery schools, devised a new system of training, opened special schools for cannon-struck youngsters...
...first time the Russian man-in-the-street knew what Voronov looked like. One photograph showed him receiving his medal from small, bearded President Mikhail Kalinin, and smiling self-consciously, like a boy in his first long pants. Another showed him questioning beaten Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus in a bare room near Stalingrad. On Moscow's Kuznetsky Most, an enterprising art gallery exhibited his portrait in oil-blue eyes, bulbous nose, big, friendly mouth, heavy jowls...
...White Russia the young, ragged Red Army's prodigy, 28-year-old Mikhail Tukhachevsky, met the Poles. In the Ukraine, Semion Budenny's Cossacks counterattacked. By August, the Red horsemen were at Lwow's gates, Tukhachevsky at Warsaw...
Like American poker, chess is a Russian indoor sport. Last week there was a big chess upset: Wizard Mikhail Botvinnik was checkmated in 50 moves by the Moscow titleholder, Vasili Smyslov...