Trial of the Sixteen

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historical event political trial show trial

The Trial of the Sixteen was a 1936 Soviet show trial in Moscow in which prominent Old Bolsheviks were accused of treason and summarily condemned, marking a key early stage of Stalin’s Great Purge.

Aliases (1)

Trial of the Seventeen ×1

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	historical event → political trial → show trial →
aim	consolidation of Joseph Stalin’s power → elimination of Old Bolsheviks →
alsoKnownAs	Trial of the Twenty-One → surface form: "First Moscow Trial"
characterizedAs	show trial with forced confessions →
charge	collaboration with Leon Trotsky → conspiracy to assassinate Soviet leaders → forming a Trotskyite-Zinovievite terrorist center → terrorism → treason →
country	Soviet Union →
defendant	Eduard Holtzman → Emelian Dreitzer → Fedor Reingold → Fritz David → Grigory Yevdokimov → Grigory Zinoviev → Fedor Reingold → surface form: "Isak Reingold" Ivan Bakayev → Ivan Smirnov → Konstantin Berman-Yurin → Lev Kamenev → Richard Pickel → Sergei Mrachkovsky → Vagarshak Ter-Vaganyan → Valentin Olberg → Vladimir Olberg →
defendantsCount	16 →
endDate	1936-08-24 →
executedSoonAfterVerdict	true →
executionMethod	shooting →
followedBy	Trial of the Seventeen → Trial of the Twenty-One →
legalOutcome	guilty verdict for all defendants →
location	Moscow → Kremlin → surface form: "Moscow Kremlin"
mainDefendant	Grigory Zinoviev → Lev Kamenev →
organizedBy	NKVD →
partOf	Great Purge → Trial of the Twenty-One → surface form: "Moscow Trials"
politicalLeaderBehind	Joseph Stalin →
presidedOverBy	Vasily Ulrikh →
propagandaFunction	justify repression against alleged Trotskyists →
prosecutedBy	Andrei Vyshinsky →
sentence	death →
significance	marked an early key stage of Stalin’s Great Purge →
startDate	1936-08-19 →
year	1936 →

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ivan Bakayev → convictedIn → Trial of the Sixteen →

Ivan Bakayev → event → Trial of the Sixteen →

Great Purge → notableEvent → Trial of the Sixteen →

this entity surface form: "Trial of the Seventeen"

Ivan Bakayev → notableFor → Trial of the Sixteen →

Valentin Olberg → participantIn → Trial of the Sixteen →

Richard Pickel → wasProsecutedIn → Trial of the Sixteen →