So when Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev announced that a US pilot had been captured, they were caught in a lie. Powers was put on a public show trial and sentenced to prison, but was released in ...

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 ...

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.

The ensuing trial, which took place in front of a packed house at the local metalworkers’ club, ended in a guilty verdict and 5-year prison sentence. Responses to these events vividly displayed the ...