Moscow trials
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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
Lev Kamenev
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Lev Borisovich Kamenev was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician. A prominent Old Bolshevik, Kamenev was a leading figure in the early Soviet government and served as a deputy premier of the S
Moscow trials
…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 known as…
Kamenev, c. 1920s
Kamenev at the Brest-Litovsk in December 1917 (right first).
Kamenev and Lenin at Gorki, 1922
Lev Kamenev, Director of the Lenin Institute of the Central Committee 1923