RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
MAJOR EVENTS IN PRE REVOLUTION RUSSIA
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Show Trials
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Purges
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Five Year Plans
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Collectivization
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Detailed explanation-1: -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 “Right Opposition” of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Detailed explanation-2: -Show trials became common during Joseph Stalin’s political repressions, such as the Moscow Trials of the Great Purge period (1937–38). Such trials paralleled the institution of self-criticism within Communist Party cadres and Soviet society. The Soviet authorities staged the actual trials meticulously.
Detailed explanation-3: -Three successive trials were held in Moscow that removed most of the Old Bolsheviks and the challenges to Stalin’s position. As the scope of the purge began widening, the omnipresent suspicion of saboteurs and counter-revolutionaries began impacting civilian life.
Detailed explanation-4: -The third trial, in March 1938, known as The Trial of the Twenty-One, is the last of the Soviet Union trials. It included 21 defendants alleged to belong to the so-called “Bloc of Rightists and Trotskyites": Nikolai Bukharin – Marxist theoretician, former head of the Communist International and member of the Politburo.