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REPORT OF COURT PROCEEDINGS

THE CASE OF THE

TROTSKYITE-ZINOVIEVITE
TERRORIST CENTRE


Heard Before the

MILITARY COLLEGIUM OF THE

SUPREME COURT OF THE U.S.S.R.

Moscow, August 19-24, 1936

In re

G.E. Zinoviev, L.B.Kamenev, G.E. Evdokimov,

I.N. Smirnov, I.P. Bakayev, V.A. Ter-Vaganyan,

S.V. Mrachkovsky, E.A. Dreitzer, E.S. Holtzman,

I.I. Reingold, R.V. Pickel, V.P. Olberg, K.B.

Berman-Yurin, Fritz David (I.I. Kruglyansky),

M. Lurye and N. Lurye

Charged under Articles 588, 19 and 588, 5811

of the Criminal Code of the R.S.F.S.R.



Published by the

PEOPLE'S COMMISSARIAT OF JUSTICE OF THE U.S.S.R.

MOSCOW 1936







Contents





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(Read also Gudrun Persson's article about the show trials, "And they all confessed ..." [ENG]; "Bolsjeviker bekänner sin skuld" [SWE].)

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August 19 (morning session)


Indictment

Examination of the Accused Mrachkovsky

Examination of the Accused Evdokimov



August 19 (evening session)


Examination of the Accused Dreitzer

Examination of the Accused Reingold

Examination of the Accused Bakayev

Examination of the Accused Pickel



August 20 (morning session)


Examination of the Accused Kamenev

Examination of the Witness Yakovlev

Examination of the Accused Zinoviev

Examination of the Witness Safonova







Grigory E. Zinoviev (1883-1936).



August 20 (evening session)


Examination of the Accused I.N. Smirnov

Examination of the Accused Olberg

Examination of the Accused Berman-Yurin



August 21 (morning session)


Examination of the Accused Holtzman

Examination of the Accused N. Lurye

Examination of the Accused M. Lurye

Examination of the Accused Ter-Vaganyan



August 21 (evening session)


Examination of the Accused Fritz David (Kruglyansky)

Statement by Comrade Vyshinsky, State Attorney of the U.S.S.R.



August 22 (morning session)


Speech for the Prosecution by Comrade A.Y. Vyshinsky, State Attorney of the U.S.S.R.







Andrei Vyshinsky (1883-1954), prosecutor.



August 22 (evening session)


Last Pleas of Mrachkovsky, Evdokimov, Dreitzer, Reingold, Bakayev and Pickel



August 23 (morning session)


Last Pleas of Kamenev, Zinoviev, Smirnov, Olberg, Berman-Yurin, Holtzman, N. Lurye and M. Lurye



August 23 (evening session)


Last Pleas of Ter-Vaganyan and Fritz David

The Verdict








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