He defined the Soviet regime as transitional ... murdered virtually the entire leadership of the October Revolution. Show trials were organized, between 1936 and 1938, of Bolshevik leaders ...

The recent trial of two Russian writers, though it ended Monday in their conviction, may have been an important break-through in the struggle for civil liberties in the Soviet Union, Harold J.

Several Soviet leaders were worried that Beria was ... And he stage-managed show trials of his former political rivals who were put to death. All told, thousands of party, industrial, and military ...

Each of the four Allied countries that had formed the International Military Tribunal -- the United States, France, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union ... presiding over the trial and breaking ...