Case of the Anti-Soviet "Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites"

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The Case of the Anti-Soviet "Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites" was a 1938 Stalinist show trial in Moscow in which prominent Soviet officials and former oppositionists were accused of treason, espionage, and plotting against the Soviet state as part of the Great Purge.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Moscow Trial
political trial
show trial
allegedLeader Leon Trotsky
Nikolai Bukharin
characterizedAs Stalinist repressions
show trial
charge conspiracy to overthrow the Soviet government
espionage
membership in an anti-Soviet bloc
sabotage
terrorism
treason
country Soviet Union
endTime 1938-03-13
hasDefendant Akmal Ikramov
Alexei Rykov
Arkady Rosengolts
Christian Rakovsky
Faizullah Khojaev
Genrikh Yagoda
Grigori Grinko
Grigori Grinko
surface form: Grigory Grinko

Isaak Zelensky
Karl Radek
Mikhail Chernov
Nikolai Bukharin
Nikolai Krestinsky
Pavel Piatakov
Prokopy Zubarev
Vasily Sharangovich
Vladimir Ivanov
judgedBy Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR
languageOfWork Russian
legalForm criminal trial
location Moscow
Moscow
surface form: Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
numberOfDefendants 21
organizedBy Joseph Stalin
People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs
surface form: NKVD
partOf Great Purge
Moscow Trials
pointInTime March 1938
politicalContext Great Purge
Stalin era
surface form: Stalinism
prosecutedBy Andrei Vyshinsky
surface form: Andrey Vyshinsky
result death sentences for most defendants
executions of convicted defendants
significance culmination of the Moscow Trials
elimination of former Right Opposition and Trotskyist opposition leaders
startTime 1938-03-02

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Trial of the Twenty-One alsoKnownAs Case of the Anti-Soviet "Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites"
Trial of the Twenty-One allegedOrganization Case of the Anti-Soviet "Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites"
this entity surface form: Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites