Russian Rulers History Podcast · Mark Schauss
In the Case of the Anti-Soviet Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites - Part One
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A 1938 Moscow trial becomes a sharp study of scripted testimony, political paranoia, and the old Bolsheviks' deadly fate.
This episode centers on the 1938 Moscow trial of 21 accused men, using its charges of treason, German espionage, economic sabotage, and conspiracy to show how insistently the case was tied back to Leon Trotsky.
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You get a grim, transcript-led look at the 1938 trial of the Anti-Soviet Block of Rights and Trotskyists, where Trotsky is repeatedly cast as the ringleader.
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