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The '''Moscow Trials''' were a series of | The '''Moscow Trials''' were a series of trials held in the [[Soviet Union]] against alleged Trotskyists and members of Right Opposition who were carrying out acts of sabotage and assasination<!-- There needs to be either a internal or external primary source for this. Or it remains in uncertain terms. -->. The way the trials actually went is unclear, as different factions inside the CPSU would, over the years, bend what actually happened<ref>"Speech to the 20th Congress of the CPSU", more commonly known as the Secret Speech, is the first example where documents would be bended and allegations would be made about the trials to fit the goals of Kruschev's new government. ([https://www.marxists.org/archive/khrushchev/1956/02/24.htm Marxists.org])</ref> for their own interests, eventually making the actual truth unrecovereable. | ||
== Background == | == Background == | ||
There were three Moscow Trials, including: | There were three Moscow Trials<ref name=":0">[https://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/government/law/1936/moscow-trials/index.htm The Case of the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Centre; Heard Before the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the U.S.S.R.]</ref>, including:<blockquote> | ||
# the Case of the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Center (Zinoviev-Kamenev Trial, or the "Trial of the Sixteen;" 1936); | # the Case of the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Center (Zinoviev-Kamenev Trial, or the "Trial of the Sixteen;" 1936); | ||
# the Case of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center (Pyatakov-Radek Trial; 1937); and | # the Case of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center (Pyatakov-Radek Trial; 1937); and | ||
# the Case of the Anti-Soviet "Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites" (Bukharin-Rykov Trial, or "Trial of the Twenty-One;" 1938) | # the Case of the Anti-Soviet "Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites" (Bukharin-Rykov Trial, or "Trial of the Twenty-One;" 1938) | ||
</blockquote>There were five soviet officials assasinated by the bloc<!-- How do we know? -->, including:<blockquote> | |||
*[[Kirov|Sergei Kirov]] | |||
* [[Kirov|Sergei Kirov]] | |||
* Gorky | * Gorky | ||
* Peshko | * Peshko | ||
* Kuibyshev | * Kuibyshev | ||
* Menzhinsky | * Menzhinsky | ||
</blockquote>The defendants of these were Bolshevik Party leaders and top officials of the Soviet secret police. Most defendants were charged under Article 58 of the RSFSR Penal Code with conspiring with the Western powers to assassinate Stalin and other Soviet leaders, dismember the Soviet Union, and restore capitalism<ref name=":0" />. These trials would later be characterized as show trials, mostly from a lack of assertiveness to preserve any of the documents that would allegedly prove their legitimacy. | |||
In the first trial, Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Center, all 16 of the defendants were executed for crimes against the Soviet state. Before their executions they gave deeply political reasons for how they had become counter-revolutionaries. The trials would be notable for their public aspect, and for the thousands of pages of confessions they would spawn. <!-- Where can we read those thousands of pages? | |||
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== Involvement of Yezhov == | |||
Nikolai Yezhov, a known nazi spy<ref>Kudrinskikh, A. ''Nikolai Yezhov: Bloody dwarf'' </ref> which would later be executed for treason in 1940 and served as a functionary of the NKVD during the time of the trials and would later serve as head of the intelligence agency<ref>On the appointment of Comrade N. I. YEZHOV as People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR ([http://www.cyberussr.com/rus/y-appt-eng.html Read on CyberUSSR])</ref>, was assigned to handle the gathering of information that would prove or disprove the involvement of various defendants in various plots, and there are many suspicions that Yezhov may have used the trial as his first opportunity for sabotage. | |||
== References == | == References == | ||
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Revision as of 23:21, 18 November 2020
The Moscow Trials were a series of trials held in the Soviet Union against alleged Trotskyists and members of Right Opposition who were carrying out acts of sabotage and assasination. The way the trials actually went is unclear, as different factions inside the CPSU would, over the years, bend what actually happened[1] for their own interests, eventually making the actual truth unrecovereable.
Background
There were three Moscow Trials[2], including:
- the Case of the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Center (Zinoviev-Kamenev Trial, or the "Trial of the Sixteen;" 1936);
- the Case of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center (Pyatakov-Radek Trial; 1937); and
- the Case of the Anti-Soviet "Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites" (Bukharin-Rykov Trial, or "Trial of the Twenty-One;" 1938)
There were five soviet officials assasinated by the bloc, including:
- Sergei Kirov
- Gorky
- Peshko
- Kuibyshev
- Menzhinsky
The defendants of these were Bolshevik Party leaders and top officials of the Soviet secret police. Most defendants were charged under Article 58 of the RSFSR Penal Code with conspiring with the Western powers to assassinate Stalin and other Soviet leaders, dismember the Soviet Union, and restore capitalism[2]. These trials would later be characterized as show trials, mostly from a lack of assertiveness to preserve any of the documents that would allegedly prove their legitimacy.
In the first trial, Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Center, all 16 of the defendants were executed for crimes against the Soviet state. Before their executions they gave deeply political reasons for how they had become counter-revolutionaries. The trials would be notable for their public aspect, and for the thousands of pages of confessions they would spawn.
Involvement of Yezhov
Nikolai Yezhov, a known nazi spy[3] which would later be executed for treason in 1940 and served as a functionary of the NKVD during the time of the trials and would later serve as head of the intelligence agency[4], was assigned to handle the gathering of information that would prove or disprove the involvement of various defendants in various plots, and there are many suspicions that Yezhov may have used the trial as his first opportunity for sabotage.
References
- ↑ "Speech to the 20th Congress of the CPSU", more commonly known as the Secret Speech, is the first example where documents would be bended and allegations would be made about the trials to fit the goals of Kruschev's new government. (Marxists.org)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Case of the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Centre; Heard Before the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the U.S.S.R.
- ↑ Kudrinskikh, A. Nikolai Yezhov: Bloody dwarf
- ↑ On the appointment of Comrade N. I. YEZHOV as People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR (Read on CyberUSSR)