Maxim-Tokarev

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The Maxim-Tokarev was a Russian light machine gun based on the Maxim M1910. Following World War I, the Soviet army started developing its own machine gun and the 7.62mm Maxim Tokarev and Maxim Koleshnikov are examples of their initial efforts.

[edit] Literature

• Musgrave, Daniel D.; Thomas B. Nelson (1967). The World's Assault Rifles and Automatic Carbines. T. B. N. Enterprises, page 150. 

• Barker, A. J.; John Walter (1971). Russian Infantry Weapons of World War II. New York: Arco Pub. Co, page 35. ISBN 0668023368. 

• Bingham-Black Smith, Walter Harold; Joseph E. Smith (1975). Small Arms of the World: A Basic Manual of Small Arms, 10th ed., London: A and W Visual Library, page 547. ISBN 0891040218. 

• Dunn, Walter Scott (1995). The Soviet Economy and the Red Army, 1930-1945. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Security International, pages 101ff. ISBN 0275948935. 

• Hogg, Ian V.; John S. Weeks (2000). Military Small Arms of the 20th Century, 7th ed., Iola, Wis.: Krause Publications, page 359f. ISBN 0873418247. 

• Tucker, Spencer; Jinwung Kim (2000). Encyclopedia of the Korean War: A Political, Social, and Military History. Oxford: ABC-CLIO, page 407. ISBN 1576070298. 

• Dunn, Walter Scott (2006). Stalin's keys to victory: the rebirth of the Red Army. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Security International, page 91. ISBN 0275990672. 

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• 7.62 Maxim Tokarev
• the Winter War
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