Soviet show trials

Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician (1883–1936)

NKVD director under Joseph Stalin (1895-1940)

Premier of Russia and the Soviet Union (1881-1938)

Marshal of the Soviet Union (1883-1939)

Prince Primate, Archbishop of Esztergom, cardinal, and leader of the Catholic Church in Hungary

Soviet diplomat (1883-1938)

Soviet diplomat (1873-1941)

series of three trials held in the Soviet Union at the instigation of Joseph Stalin between 1936 and 1938 against so-called Trotskyists and members of Right Opposition of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Uzbek politician (1896-1938)

execution of thirteen Soviet Jews

Czech cardinal, professor and theologist (1888–1969)

Russian playwright and writer (1884-1952)

Soviet show trial

Soviet Yiddish poet (1900-1952)

purge in the Soviet Union

Polish archbishop (1857–1926)

Soviet politician (1893-1938)

Soviet politician (1889–1938)

Russian politician (1890–1937)

staged trial of 16 leaders of the Polish Secret State held by the Soviet Union in Moscow in 1945

Bombings in Moscow

1930 Soviet show trial

Exarch of the Russian Catholic Church (1879-1935)

USSR show trial in Kharkiv in 1930, in which 45 Ukrainian intellectuals, theologians, writers and a librarian were accused of antistate activities

Polish-Latvian priest

Russian revolutionary (1885-1938)

Stalin's terror

1922 Soviet show trial of anti-Bolshevik leftists

1935 attempt to assassinate Stalin

Hungarian monk (1895–1981)

group of Crimean Tatar civil rights activists

1960 arrest of Americans by the Soviet Union