Witnessing Stalin's Justice
The United States and the Moscow Show Trials
- 288 pages
- English
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Witnessing Stalin's Justice
The United States and the Moscow Show Trials
About this book
Witnessing Stalin's Justice brings together contemporary American reactions to the Moscow show trials and analyses them to understand their impact on US-Soviet relations. Held between 1936 and 1938, the show trials made false charges such as espionage, sabotage and counter-revolutionary plotting at the behest of the exiled Leon Trotsky to condemn the veteran Party leaders who had founded the Communist Party and led the Russian Revolution. Using eyewitness accounts by American diplomats and foreign correspondents for the American press as well as official US government sources, this book highlights the wildly different reactions seen from liberals, radicals, intellectuals and mainstream media. Evans and Welch show how fractures of opinion ran through every level of US society and divided political groups, especially between the American Communist party and other left-wing organisations. Covering the closed trials of the Soviet military, the Soviet anti-foreigner campaign and the Dewey Commission as well as the show trials themselves, Witnessing Stalin's Justice uncovers and brings together American reactions to the Soviet Union's Great Purge.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Dedication
- Title
- Contents
- List of Plates
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Timeline of Events
- Introduction
- 1 The United States and the Soviet Union (1917–33)
- 2 Prelude to the Moscow Show Trials (1917–35)
- 3 The First Moscow Show Trial: The Case of the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Centre (1936)
- 4 The Second Moscow Show Trial: The Case of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyite Centre (1937)
- 5 Other American Reactions to the Second Trial (1937)
- 6 The Army Trial: The Case of the Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization (1937), the Navy Purges (1937–8), and the Anti-Foreigner Campaign (1937–8)
- 7 The Third Moscow Show Trial: The Bloc of Rightists and Trotskyites (1938) and The Moscow Trials: A Statement by American Progressives (1938)
- 8 The Aftermath of the Moscow Show Trials: Part I—1939–55
- 9 The Aftermath of the Moscow Show Trials: Part II—1956 to the Present
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Copyright