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Informationen zum Autor Kelly J. Evans is Associate Professor and Reference Librarian at Eastern Washington University, USA. Jeanie M. Welch is a former Professor and Reference Librarian at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA, and former Adjunct Professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA. She is the author of two monographs. Klappentext 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. Vorwort A study of contemporary American reactions to the Moscow show trials of the 1930s and their impact on US-Soviet relations. Zusammenfassung A study of contemporary American reactions to the Moscow show trials of the 1930s and their impact on US-Soviet relations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. U.S.-Soviet Relations, 1917-19332. Prelude to the Moscow Show Trials, 1917-19353. The First Moscow Show Trial: The Case of the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Centre4. The Second Moscow Trial: The American Committee for the Defence of Leon Trotsky, the Dewey Commission and the Open Letter to American Liberals5. The Secret Army Trial: The Navy Purge and the Anti-Foreigner Campaign6. The Third Moscow Show Trial: The Anti-Soviet Bloc of Rightists and Trotskyites7. The Aftermath: Postwar Anti-communism and America’s Cold War Notes Bibliography Index...
