Witnessing Stalin's Justice - The United States and the Moscow Show Trials

Witnessing Stalin''s Justice brings together contemporary American reactions to the Moscow show trials and analyses them to understand their impact on US-Soviet relations. Held between 1936 and 1938, the show trials made false charges such as espionage, sabotage and counter-revolutionary plotting at the behest of the exiled Leon Trotsky to condemn the veteran Party leaders who had founded the Communist Party and led the Russian Revolution. Using eyewitness accounts by American diplomats and foreign correspondents for the American press as well as official US government sources, this book highlights the wildly different reactions seen from liberals, radicals, intellectuals and mainstream media. Evans and Welch show how fractures of opinion ran through every level of US society and divided political groups, especially between the American Communist party and other left-wing organisations. Covering the closed trials of the Soviet military, the Soviet anti-foreigner campaign and the Dewey Commission as well as the show trials themselves, Witnessing Stalin''s Justice uncovers and brings together American reactions to the Soviet Union''s Great Purge.>

Product details

• Authors: Kelly J Evans, Kelly J. Evans, Jeanie M Welch, Jeanie M. Welch
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.03.2025
• EAN: 9781350338319
• ISBN: 978-1-350-33831-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 229 mm x 10 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Russia, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Legal History, United States of America, USA, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, History of the Americas, USSR, Soviet Union, Political oppression and persecution, HISTORY / Russia / General, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions