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Trotsky and the Military Conspiracy: Soviet and Non-Soviet Evidence Evidence; with the Complete Transcript of the "Tukhachevsky Affair" Trial is a 2021 book by historian Grover Furr, published by Erythros Press and Media.

Acknowledgements and Dedication

I wish to express my gratitude to Kevin Prendergast, Arthur Hudson – Arthur, may you enjoy your well-deserved retirement! — and Siobhan McCarthy, the skilled and tireless Inter-Library Loan librarians at Harry S. Sprague Library, Montclair State University.

Without their help, my research would simply not be possible. With their continued help, I can persevere.

I would like to recognise Montclair State University for giving me a sabbatical leave in the fall semester of 2015, and special research travel funds in 2017, 2019, and 2020, which have been invaluable in my research on this book.

This book is dedicated to

Ушкалов Вячеслав Николаевич

Vyacheslav Nikolaevich Ushkalov

The Authorship of This Book

Foreword: How to Read This Book

Introduction - The Tukhachevsky Affair

Chapter 1. The Shvernik Report - Khrushchev-era Falsifications

Chapter 2. Evidence that the Defendants' Testimony was Genuine

Chapter 3. Soviet and Russian Books That Lie About the Tukhachevsky Affair

Chapter 4. Western books that lie about the Tukhachevsky affair - Stephen Kotkin

Chapter 5. Soviet evidence - Yakir letter to Stalin

Chapter 6. Soviet evidence - Hitler reacted to Tukhachevsky Affair, August 1937

Chapter 7. Soviet evidence - Ustrialov's testimony

Chapter 8. Soviet evidence - Bloodstains Issue

Chapter 9. Soviet evidence - The Arao Telegram

Chapter 10. Soviet evidence - The Romanov Letter of 1938

Chapter 11. Non-Soviet evidence - Lyushkov to the Japanese

Chapter 12. Non-Soviet evidence - Himmler, Vlasov, Hitler, Goebbels, Davies

Chapter 13. Non-Soviet Evidence - The Mastny-Benes Report

Chapter 14. The Judges Judged

Chapter 15. Trotsky in the Transcript of the Tukhachevsky Affair Trial of 11 June 1937

Conclusion

Appendix