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Moscow Trials
The
Moscow Trials
were a series of
show trials
held in the
Soviet Union
at the instigation of
Joseph Stalin
between 1936 and 1938. The Moscow Trials included the Case of the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Center (
Zinoviev
-
Kamenev
Trial, aka "Trial of the Sixteen," 1936), the Case of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center (
Pyatakov
-
Radek
Trial, 1937), and the
Case of the Anti-Soviet "Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites"
(
Bukharin
-
Rykov
Trial, aka "Trial of the Twenty-One," 1938).
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