The Moscow trials were a series of show trials held by the Soviet Union between 1936 and 1938 at the instigation of Joseph Stalin. They were nominally directed against "Trotskyists" and members of the
Prosecutor General Vyshinsky (centre), reading the indictment, in 1937
Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician. A prominent Old Bolshevik, Zinoviev was a close associate of Vladimir Lenin prior to 1917 and a leading figure in the ea
Moscow trials
…and members of the "Right Opposition" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The "Case of the Trotskyite–Zinovievite Terrorist Center" (or Zinoviev–Kamenev Trial, also known as the 'Trial of the Sixteen', August 1936); The "Case of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center" (or Pyatakov–Radek Trial, also…
Elizavetagrad, a city of about 60,000 people, during the first years of the 20th century.
Zinoviev's Okhrana mugshot from the time of his arrest, March 1908.
Between the 1930 American (L) and 1931 British edition (R), Zinoviev's name was erased from the pamphlet Socialism and War [1915], co-written with Lenin.