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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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of the English edition from 1936.


(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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