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Moscow Trials - Details
Moscow Trials - First Moscow Trial Trial of the Sixteen
The first trial was held from August 19 to August 24, 1936; the principal defendants were Gregory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev.
The full list of defendants is as follows:
- Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev
- Lev Borisovich Kamenev
- Grigory Yevdokimov
- Ivan Bakayev
- Sergei Vitalyevich Mrachkovsky, a hero of the Russian Civil War in Siberia and the Russian Far East
- Vagarshak Arutyunovich Ter-Vaganyan, leader of the Armenian Communist Party
- Ivan Nikitich Smirnov, People's Commissar for communications
- Yefim Dreitzer
- Isak Reingold
- Richard Pickel
- Eduard Holtzman
- Fritz David (Ilya-David Israilevich Kruglyansky)
- Valentin Olberg
- Konon Berman-Yurin
- Moissei Lurye (Alexander Emel)
- Nathan Lurye
All of them were charged under Articles 58.8, 19 and 58.11 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR. The main charge was forming a terrorist organization with the purpose of killing Joseph Stalin and other members of the Soviet government. 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.
Moscow Trials - Trial of Radek and Piatakov Trial of the Seventeen
In another trial in January 1937, the principal defendants were Karl Radek, Yuri Piatakov, Grigori Sokolnikov, Nikolai Muralov, Mikhail Boguslavsky and others (17 persons altogether). All but four of them were sentenced to death; the remainder were sentenced to imprisonment in labor camps.
Moscow Trials - Trial of Military
Main article: Case of Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization
The 1937 trial of high military commanders, also known as "Tukhachevsky Affair", was a secret trial, unlike the Moscow show trials. However, it featured the same level of frame-up of the defendants and it is traditionally considered one of the key trials of the Great Purge. Marshal Tukhachevsky and the senior military officers Iona Yakir, Ieronim Uborevich, Robert Eideman, Avgust Kork, Vitovt Putna, B.M. Feldman and Vitali Primakov were accused of anti-Communist conspiracy and sentenced to death; they were executed on the night of June 11/June 12, immediately after the verdict delivered by a Special Session of the Supreme Court of the USSR. This trial triggered a massive purge of the Red Army, with the total number of executed estimated by 42,000.
Moscow Trials - Trial of the Twenty One
Main article: Trial of the Twenty One.
The Trial of the Twenty-One was held in March 1938. The chief accused were Alexei Rykov, Nikolai Bukharin, Nikolai Krestinsky, Christian Rakovsky, and Genrikh Yagoda.
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