Report of Court Proceedings in the Case of the Anti-Soviet "Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites" Traitors on Trial by People's Commissariat of Justice of the U.S.S.R - 1938

hardback. Fair. in the Case of the Anti-Soviet "Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites"... Moscow, March 2-13, 1938. Verbatim report. Moscow 1938. Cloth-backed printed boards. Two corners chipped, internally fine.

People's Commissariat of Jus. 1938. Hardcover. Fair. Hardcover, verbatim report heard before the military collegium of the Supre me Court of the U.S.S.R. In Moscow, March 2-13, 1938. Fading, chipping, and shelf wear to exterior; cover board wearing at corners, edges; fading to p ages; in fair condition with clean text, firm binding. .

Hardcover in cream white boards with black lettering and grey spine with black lettering. Tight binding Unmarked text. Edge wear corners bumped.

Hardcover in cream white boards with black lettering and grey spine with black lettering Tight binding Unmarked text. Edge wear corners bumped This second purge trial involved 17 lesser figures including Karl Radek, Yuri Pyatakov and Grigory Sokolnikov. Alexander Beloborodov was also arrested and intended to be tried along with Radek, but did not make the confession required of him, and so he was not produced in court. Thirteen of the defendants were eventually executed by shooting. The rest received sentences in labor camps. Radek was spared as he implicated others, including Nikolai Bukharin, Alexei Rykov, and Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky, setting the stage for the Trial of Military and Trial of the Twenty One. History USSR law Court Trail Execution 031423

Moscow: People's Commissariat of Justice, 1938. First edition. 8vo, pp 800 Cloth spine, some wear, paper boards, tear to back board, else good. A rare book and seldom found in such good condition.

Moscow: The People's Commissariat of Justice of the U.S.S.R., 1938. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. Fair. 22 cm. [7], 799, [1] pages. Errata slip at last page. Cover shows wear and soiling. Edges rubbed and corners bumped. The third show trial, in March 1938, known as The Trial of the Twenty-One, tied together all the loose threads from earlier trials. It included 21 defendants alleged to belong to the so-called "Bloc of Rightists and Trotskyites" It was now alleged that Bukharin and others had conspired to assassinate Lenin and Stalin numerous times after 1918 and had murdered Soviet writer Maxim Gorky by poison in 1936. The group also stood accused of espionage. Bukharin and others were claimed to have plotted the overthrow and territorial partition of the Soviet Union in collusion with agents of the German and Japanese governments, among other preposterous charges. Even sympathetic observers who had stomached the earlier trials found it hard to swallow the new charges… Read More

Moscow: The People's Commissariat of Justice of the U.S.S.R., 1937. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. Fair. 22 cm. [8], 580 pages. Cover very worn and soiled. Hindges weak. Edges rubbed and corners bumped. Some moisture staining at bottom (all pages separate and text complete). This second purge trial involved 17 lesser figures including Karl Radek, Yuri Pyatakov and Grigory Sokolnikov. Alexander Beloborodov was also arrested and intended to be tried along with Radek, but did not make the confession required of him, and so he was not produced in court. Thirteen of the defendants were eventually executed by shooting. The rest received sentences in labor camps. Radek was spared as he implicated others, including Nikolai Bukharin, Alexei Rykov, and Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky, setting the stage for the Trial of Military and Trial of the Twenty One. Radek provided the pretext for the purge on a massive scale with his testimony that there was a "third organization… Read More