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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 .
Its conclusions asserted the innocence of all those condemned in the Moscow Trials. In its summary the commission wrote: "Independent of extrinsic evidence, the Commission finds: That the conduct of the Moscow Trials was such as to convince any unprejudiced person that no attempt was made to ascertain the truth.
Its conclusions asserted the innocence of all those condemned in the Moscow Trials. In its summary, the commission wrote. Independent of extrinsic evidence, the Commission finds: That the conduct of the Moscow Trials was such as to convince any unprejudiced person that no attempt was made to ascertain the truth.
The Trial of the Twenty-One took place in Moscow in March 1938, towards the end of the Soviet Great Purge. The accused were tortured to extract confessions and publicly admitted their guilt during the show trial. Most of the accused, including Nikolai Bukharin, Alexei Rykov and Genrikh Yagoda, were convicted, and sentenced to death.
Rubashov is a stand-in for the Old Bolsheviks as a group, [13] and Koestler uses him to explore their actions at the 1938 Moscow show trials. [14] [15] Secondary characters include some fellow prisoners: No. 402 is a Czarist army officer and veteran inmate, [16] with an archaic sense of personal honor, as Rubashov would consider it, .
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