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The Moscow trials were a series of show trials held by the Soviet Union between 1936 and 1938 at the instigation of Joseph Stalin. They were nominally directed against " Trotskyists " and members of the " Right Opposition " of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union .
The Case of the Anti-Soviet "Bloc of Rightists and Trotskyites" (or "Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites") (Russian: Процесс антисоветского «право-троцкистского блока»), also known as the Trial of the Twenty-One, was the last of the three public Moscow trials charging prominent Bolsheviks with espionage and treason.
Darkness at Noon (German: Sonnenfinsternis, lit. ' Solar eclipse ') is a novel by Austrian-Hungarian-born novelist Arthur Koestler, first published in 1940.His best known work, it is the tale of Rubashov, an Old Bolshevik who is arrested, imprisoned, and tried for treason against the government that he helped to create.
The American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky had been set up following the first of the Moscow "Show Trials" in 1936. It comprised Franz Boas, John Chamberlain, John Dos Passos, Louis Hacker, Sidney Hook, Suzanne La Follette, Reinhold Niebuhr, George Novack, Norman Thomas and Edmund Wilson.
The movie gave a one-sided view of the Moscow trials, rationalized Moscow's participation in the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact and its unprovoked invasion of Finland. The movie also portrayed the Soviet Union as a state that was moving towards a democratic model, a Soviet Union committed to internationalism.
Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky. The Case was a secret trial, unlike the Moscow Show Trials.It is traditionally considered one of the key trials of the Great Purge.Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky and the senior military officers Iona Yakir, Ieronim Uborevich, Robert Eideman, August Kork, Vitovt Putna, Boris Feldman, and Vitaly Primakov (as well as Yakov Gamarnik, who committed suicide before the ...
Soviet show trials, public trials in which the judicial authorities have already determined the guilt of the defendant.The actual trial has as its only goal the presentation of both the accusation and the verdict to the public so they will serve as both an impressive example and a warning to other would-be dissidents or transgressors.
The commission purported to clear Trotsky of all charges made during the Moscow Trials and, moreover, exposed the scale of the alleged frame-up of all other defendants during these trials. Among its conclusions, it stated that "the conduct of the Moscow trials was such as to convince any unprejudiced person that no effort was made to ascertain ...