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| | Moscow Trials - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Trial of the Twenty-One was held in March 1938. | | | They were tried by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR, with Vasili Ulrikh presiding, and sentenced to death, the prosecutor being Andrei Vyshinsky. | | | The first trial was of 16 members of the so-called "Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Centre," held in August 1936, at which the chief defendants were Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev, two of the most prominent former party leaders. |
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| | Barley Enhancement Program: 1999 Annual Report |
| | Most of the trials were replicated four times and planted in a randomized block design, as 7 row plots with 7-inch row spacing, 15 feet long. | | | Moscow, Parma, and Kimberly had winter barley trials. | | | Average yield was 158 bu/acre and ranged from 182 (87AB5632) to 145 bu/acre for 87Ab4983, 90Ab1322, and Prairie. |
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| | Show trial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Like in classic show trials, the (in this case) innocent verdict is usually determined by judges, rather than juries. | | | Massive campaigns in newspapers and at numerous meetings shaped the opinion of the public towards the cases. | | | The trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann by the Israeli government, after his capture and kidnapping in 1960. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_trials
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| | Ashcroft’s Gulag by Harvey Silverglate |
| | To an observer unfamiliar with Faris’s unusual situation, the case against Abdi sounds pretty straightforward, typical of cases involving state witnesses: in an effort to reduce his long prison sentence, Faris must have ratted on his former partner-in-crime to federal investigators and then to a grand jury, resulting in Abdi’s indictment. | | | And even if Abdi were to plead guilty and "admit" all these facts, we could not have any confidence in their truth. | | | If he signs a confession and admits wrongdoing, he will receive a public trial. |
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/silverglate3.html
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| | The Moscow Trials Shoot the Mad Dogs! |
| | Aftera thorough investigation the Commission returned a verdict of not guilty and declared thatthe trials were a frame-up. | | | It was only in 1956, at the Twentieth Congress of the CPSU, did Khrushchev finally revealthat the Trials were in fact frame-ups. | | | John Dewey to examine the charges made againstTrotsky and his son Leon Sedov - the two principal defendants of the Moscow Trials. |
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http://www.newyouth.com/archives/historicalanalysis/russia/moscow_trials_20000301.asp
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| | The case of Fenner Brockway |
| | In August, directly after the Zinoviev trial, the New Leader (28 August 1936), of which Brockway is the responsible editor, wrote: "We think it is the duty of the International Working Class Movement to appoint a Commission of Investigation. | | | Brockway hastened to write to Norman Thomas, leader of the Socialist Party of the United States and a member of the American Trotsky Defence Committee, urging that a Commission of Enquiry be established, not to investigate the Moscow trials, but to examine "the role of Trotskyism in the working class movement". | | | It seemed likely by this time that the efforts of the Committees in various countries, and especially in America, for an investigation into the trials, would be rewarded by the establishment of an International Commission of Enquiry. |
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http://www.revolutionary-history.co.uk/backiss/Vol1/No1/Brockway.html
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| | Death of the Butcher by Arnold Beichman |
| | Davies that the Moscow trials, which he had personally attended, were genuine that he tried to persuade President Franklin D. Roosevelt to accept his opinions. | | | Marshals and generals, admirals and vice admirals were sentenced to death, as were thousands of other officers of all ranks. | | | How could they have believed, as did U.S. ambassador Joseph Davies, a wealthy corporate lawyer, that the Moscow trials of Stalin’s fellow Bolsheviks in 1937—38 were genuine and not frame-ups? |
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http://www.hooverdigest.org/032/beichman.html
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| | Great Purges |
| | The real accused in the trial were not on the defendants' bench before the Military Tribunal. | | | Smirnov: head of the famous Fifth Army during the civil war; called the "Lenin of Siberia;" a member of the Bolshevik party for decades. | | | Radek and two others were sentenced to ten years. |
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSpurge.htm
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| | The Nuremberg Trials (part 2) |
| | One Dachau trial court reporter was so outraged at what was happening there in the name of justice that he quit his job. | | | Former Auschwitz camp adjutant and SS Captain Robert Mulka, the main defendant in the trial, was pronounced guilty of participation in mass murder and sentenced to 14 years at hard labor, a verdict that many outsiders considered outrageously lenient. | | | The lengthy case received worldwide media coverage and assumed something of the character of a show trial.107 Deciding the guilt or innocence of the defendants was "extraordinarily difficult," the judges declared in their verdict, because of the very inconclusive nature of the evidence. |
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| | Moscow Show Trials - Moscow Stop |
| | SUPREME COURT OF THE U.S.S.R. Moscow, August 19... | | | Dictator of downing ST: Tony Blair does not have rivals murdered, nor is Belmarsh the Gulag, but Robert Service, Stalin's biographer, finds some surprising | | | Kadri proceeds to examine the Moscow show trials and, not unrelatedly, the development of the international justice movement (it was Stalin... |
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http://www.ahabcbc.ca/moscow-show-trials.html
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| | TIME Europe Russia: Shades of the Past 12/15/2000 |
| | The wrath of the Russian President is easy to understand: during the past decade of "reform" many believe that Russia has been bled white by its newly created high and mighty. | | | In those well-staged mockeries of justice — which the naive West bought lock, stock, and barrel — Stalin had his key political enemies legally lynched. | | | Boris Berezovsky, the billionaire business tycoon, is in self-imposed exile, while his close associate Nikolai Glushkov, former vice president of Aeroflot, is being interrogated in Lefortovo prison. |
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http://www.time.com/time/europe/webonly/europe/2000/12/gusinsky.html
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| | Trotsky vs. Stalin, and the Moscow Trials |
| | Twice in their absence both Leon Trotsky and his son Leon Sedov have been declared guilty by the highest tribunal of the Soviet Union. | | | As the offensives progressed, a Revolutionary War Council of Poland was appointed, virtually a Provisional Government, headed by those Polish Bolsheviks who had been opposed to the venture. | | | In the United States it has long been customary for public-spirited citizens to organize committees for the purpose of securing fair trials in cases where there was suspicion concerning the impartiality of the court. |
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http://users.cyberone.com.au/myers/deutscher.html
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| | Not Guilty — Dewey Commission Report (1937) |
| | The trials, which were based on false concessions tortured from the accused, liquidated the entire Bolshevik old guard in a series of judicial murders, and were the means by which Stalin consolidated his power as head of the bureaucratic caste that ruled the Soviet Union. | | | The Commission’s hearings, which were held to investigate the charges made against Trotsky in the Moscow Trials, took place in Mexico City between 10 and 17 April 1937. | | | The report of the Commission constitutes a devastating rebuttal of these charges and exposes the trials as a fake. |
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http://www.marxist.com/announcements/dewey_commission.htm
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| | Socialism Today - Trotsky in Norway |
| | Brought to the court under police guard, he was subjected to a two-hour interrogation about his political activity in Norway and whether he had criticised foreign governments. | | | This was the start of the monstrous series of frame-ups known as the Moscow trials. | | | Those who could not be broken by the GPU were shot after bogus 'secret trials' as happened with eight senior Red Army officers, headed by the legendary Mikhail Tukhachevsky, who were executed as 'agents of Hitler' in June 1937. |
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| | The Great Famine-Genocide in Soviet Ukraine (Holodomor) |
| | Joining the Times in defending the trials was the US Ambassador to Moscow, Joseph Davies. | | | At the second trial, held in January of 1937, one of the accused, former head of Soviet industry Yuri Piatakov, was said to have flown to Oslo in December 1935. | | | Trotsky pointed to the political source of this liberal defense of the Moscow Trials. |
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| | Andry Vishinskiy |
| | 22, 1954, New York, N.Y., U.S.), Soviet statesman, diplomat, and lawyer who was the chief prosecutor during the Great Purge trials in Moscow in the 1930s. | | | While teaching at Moscow State University and practicing law as a prosecutor, he acquired a reputation as a legal theoretician. | | | Vyshinsky, a member of the Menshevik branch of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party since 1903, became a lawyer in 1913 and joined the Communist Party in 1920. |
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| | N.I. Yezhov Home Page |
| | Vyshinsky played the most visible role at this trial, his success depended on diligent investigations by N.I. Yezhov. | | | N.I. Bukharin's last plea before the Supreme Court, Moscow, March 12, 1938, verbatim from the court proceedings published by the People's Commissariat of Justice | | | "The Case of the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Centre", the Moscow trials official court proceedings, August 19-24, 1936. |
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| | Commentary Magazine - Memories of the Moscow Trials |
| | ...As WILSON's reference to the New Masses makes clear, that magazine specialized in attacking anyone who was raising doubts about the Moscow Trials... | | | ...In any case, according to the New Republic, it was a profound mistake for liberals to become involved in a dispute over the Moscow Trials when their main business was the condition of liberty and justice in the United States... | | | the united front against fascism" was to support the verdict of the Moscow Trials... |
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http://www.commentarymagazine.com/Summaries/V77I3P59-1.htm
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| | Moscow Trials: Court Proceedings |
| | Pravda's mistakes on the trial of the Zinovievites and Trotskyites, Stalin | | | First Published: People's Commissariat of Justice of the U.S.S.R., Moscow 1936 | | | of the Criminal Code of the R.S.F.S.R. Trial dates: August 19-24, 1936 (Moscow) |
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| | Arthur_koestler |
| | The collective vs the individual : An aging Bolshevik Rubashov is detained and faces a trial for his crimes and disloyalty against the Communist party. | | | From jail he recounts his life, and considers the strategy he should adopt for the impending trial... | | | Rubashov, the protagonist and a hero of the revolution, is arrested and jailed for things he has not done, though there is much about the current Soviet state that veered from his ideals as a revolutionary. |
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http://books.mysic.com/Author/Arthur_Koestler
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| | Greenwood Publishing Group I1 |
| | Radek's most abject opportunism is usually seen in his indiscriminate accusations at his trial of 1937. | | | A born iconoclast, he began his career by attacking established political orders and ended it by defending one of the world's most blatant tyrannies. | | | He is usually seen as an opportunist, betraying his friends and principles, if the dialectics of the moment required it, one who zagged once too often, thus ending his life in Stalin's Gulag. |
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| | Moscow Show Trials - Stormfront White Nationalist Community |
| | Similar trials followed in Europe after the war. | | | The Moscow Show Trials were a series of legal purges from 1936-8 aimed at old party comrades who knew Stalin was only a minor player in the bolshevik revolution. | | | They wanted to maintain the appearance of legality, so even though they didn't really need to, they had an airtight case, whether or not the individual in question was guilty. |
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| | A Moment in Time: Moscow Show Trials (Great Purge) - III |
| | This power was essential because evidence in the trials was pried from the prisoners by torture and intimidation. | | | Hunter, Christopher D. "Show Trials: Power, the Press, and Justice." http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/chunter/show_trials.html. | | | One of the remarkable aspects of these trials is that western left-wing intellectuals and observers including U.S. Ambassador Joseph Davies and New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning Moscow correspondent Walter Duranty, accepted the trumped up charges without question. |
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http://ehistory.osu.edu/world/amit/display.cfm?amit_id=2383
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| | Moscow Trials: August 19 (morning) |
| | Vyshinsky: At the trial in Leningrad, on January 15-16, 1935, when facing the court as you do now, you emphatically asserted that you had nothing to do with that murder. | | | Continuing, Evdokimov states with reference to the facts concerning the preparations for assassination of S. Kirov, that in the summer of 1934 a conference was held in Kamenov's apartment in Moscow at which Kamenev, Zinoviev, Evdokimov, Sokolnikov,Ter-Vaganyan, Reingold and Bakayev were present. | | | Soon after this conversation in Mrachkovsky's car, says Evdokimov, continuing his testimony, a conference took place in the summer villa at ilyinskoye, where Kamenev and Zinoviev lived at that time. |
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http://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/government/law/1936/moscow-trials/19/evdokimov.htm
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| | The New York Review of Books: MOSCOW TRIALS VICTIMS |
| | We of the Moscow Trials Campaign Committee feel that a total, official exoneration of all the Moscow Trial defendants is necessary for the sake of justice and the Soviet Union itself. | | | While it is encouraging that a commission for rehabilitation has been established in the Soviet Union, we cannot rely on it for more than the limited rehabilitation of Moscow Trial defendants which in the past has been selective, partial, and in the form of curt announcements without explanation. | | | We urge all those who wish to solidarize themselves with these fighters for justice to obtain copies of the petition and to help publicize this campaign, by writing to: |
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| | Bertrand Russell And Moscow Trials |
| | In 1930s, right before the start of WWII, Stalin started Moscow Trials, purging many of his Communist Party "comrades", on the charges of being Nazi's fifth column, etc. | | | Among the ones murdered, were people like Bukharin, who had gone along with Soviet repressive system for a long time. |
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| | Glossary of People: Ko |
| | Correspondent on the Spanish Civil War and wrote extensively on the nature of dictatorships. | | | Member of the German Communist Party from 1932-38, but quite after the Moscow Trials. |
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http://marxists.nigilist.ru/glossary/people/k/o.htm
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| | The Art Bin turns five |
| | In August 1997 the special issue about Stalinism was published, with, for example, the report of the court proceedings from the Moscow trials of 1936,an extensive documentation never before on the Web. | | | The issue about the Moscow trials, with the small adjoining Marxist library, required more than 1,500 hours of work. | | | She cured the Swedish king, but she was also prosecuted for murder, when a man died from drinking one of her decoctions. |
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| | Find in a Library: The first two Moscow trials : Why? |
| | To find a library, type in a postal code, state, province, or country. | | | Find in a Library: The first two Moscow trials : Why? | | | WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries. |
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| | Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 2003009466 |
| | Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Koestler, Arthur, 1905- Darkness at noon, Moscow Trials, Moscow, Russia, 1936-1937 Historiography, Totalitarianism and literature, Soviet Union In literature | | | The Mind on Trial: Darkness at Noon Mark Levene Viewpoints and Voices: Serge and Koestler on the Great Terror W. Marshall Orwell versus Koestler: Nineteen Eighty-Four as Optimistic Satire Howard Fink Darkness at Noon and the Political Novel Reed B. Merrill The ?Post-Colonialism? |
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| | Naturally, saying that i do "NOT" defend the victims of the Moscow trials is also and obvious lie. | | | Plant writes; > >And all the iron-hard orthodox trotskyist cadre leapt to the >defence of the victims of the Moscow trials. | | | If you can,t do that then fight against exclusions and expulsions. |
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