Moscow Trials
Sign in to saveseries 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
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- trial
- Part of
- Great Purge
- Has part
- Trial of the Twenty-One
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Image
- The Second Moscow Trial.jpg
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- start time
- 1936-08-19
- end time
- 1938-03-00
- different from
- Trial of the Sixteen
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Encyclopedic overview
The Moscow trials were a series of show trials held by the Soviet Union between 1936 and 1938 at the instigation of Joseph Stalin. They were nominally directed against "Trotskyists" and members of the "Right Opposition" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
The "Case of the Trotskyite–Zinovievite Terrorist Center" (or Zinoviev–Kamenev Trial, also known as the 'Trial of the Sixteen', August 1936);
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