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.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Trial of the Sixteen canonical	16
Sixteen defendants in the Trial of the Sixteen	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 ⓘ

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

Great Purge → notableEvent → Trial of the Sixteen ⓘ

this entity surface form: Trial of the Seventeen

Ivan Bakayev → notableFor → Trial of the Sixteen ⓘ

Ivan Bakayev → event → Trial of the Sixteen ⓘ

Ivan Bakayev → convictedIn → Trial of the Sixteen ⓘ

Valentin Olberg → participantIn → Trial of the Sixteen ⓘ

Richard Pickel → wasProsecutedIn → Trial of the Sixteen ⓘ

Sergei Mrachkovsky → wasTriedIn → Trial of the Sixteen ⓘ

Moscow Trials → hasPart → Trial of the Sixteen ⓘ

Ivan Smirnov → wasDefendantIn → Trial of the Sixteen ⓘ

Fedor Reingold → participantIn → Trial of the Sixteen ⓘ

Fedor Reingold → wasProsecutedIn → Trial of the Sixteen ⓘ

Fedor Reingold → wasOneOf → Trial of the Sixteen ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sixteen defendants in the Trial of the Sixteen

Konstantin Berman-Yurin → participantIn → Trial of the Sixteen ⓘ

Konstantin Berman-Yurin → triedAt → Trial of the Sixteen ⓘ

Vladimir Olberg → participatedIn → Trial of the Sixteen ⓘ

Fritz David → participantIn → Trial of the Sixteen ⓘ

Eduard Holtzman → participantIn → Trial of the Sixteen ⓘ