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The party card that undid a Marshal of the Soviet Union

The party card that undid a Marshal of the Soviet Union

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A Soviet Marshal with everything to lose is arrested, his wife shot months before him. The path to his downfall begins with a party card.

The party card that undid a Marshal of the Soviet Union

This episode explores the life and career of Alexander Yegorov, one of the first five Marshals of the Soviet Union, tracing the decisions and relationships that led to his arrest and execution in 1939. How did a decorated military leader, close to Stalin, meet such a fate?

Person: Alexander Yegorov
Date of birth: October 25, 1883
Date of arrest: February 1938
Date of death: February 23, 1939
Rank: Marshal of the Soviet Union

- Alexander Yegorov was one of the five original Marshals of the Soviet Union, a rank created by Stalin in 1935.
- He commanded armies across three wars and was instrumental in driving the White Army from Rostov-on-Don during the Civil War.
- Yegorov joined the Imperial Russian Army as a volunteer in 1901 and graduated from the Junkers school in Kazan in 1905.
- While serving in Transcaucasia, he secretly joined the Socialist Revolutionary Party in 1904, a movement he was helping to suppress.
- After the fall of the Tsar in 1917, Yegorov rejoined the Socialist Revolutionary before breaking with them and joining the Red Army and the Communist Party in 1918.

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