Report of Court Proceedings - Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Centre (1936 Moscow Trial)

Report of Court Proceedings; The Case of the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Centre; Heard Before the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the U.S.S.R.; Moscow, August 19-24, 1936; In re: G.E. Zinoviev, L.B. Kamenev, G.E. Evdokimov, I.N. Smirnov, I.P. Bakayev, V.A. Ter-Vaganyan, S.V. Mrachkovsky, E.A. Dreitzer, E.S. Holtzman, I.I. Reingold, R.V. Pickel, V.P. Olberg, K.B. Berman-Yurin, Fritz David (I.I. Kruglyansky), M. Lurye and N. Lurye; Charged under Articles 58-8, 19 and 58-8, 58-11 of the Criminal Code of the R.S.F.S.R.; Published by the People's Commissariat of Justice of the U.S.S.R.; Moscow 1936 AUGUST 19 (MORNING SESSION) Indictment — 9 Examination of the Accused Mrachkovsky — 40 Examination of the Accused Evdokimov — 46 AUGUST 19 (EVENING SESSION) Examination of the Accused Dreitzer — 51 Examination of the Accused Reingold - 54 Examination of the Accused Bakayev — 59 Examination of the Accused Pickel — 62 AUGUST 20 (MORNING SESSION) Examination of the Accused Kamenev — 65 Examination of the Witness Yakovlev — 70 Examination of the Accused Zinoviev — 71 Examination of the Witness Safonova — 76 AUGUST 20 (EVENING SESSION) Examination of the Accused I.N. Smirnov — 79 Examination of the Accused Olberg — 86 Examination of the Accused Berman-Yurin — 92 AUGUST 21 (MORNING SESSION) Examination of the Accused Holtzman — 98 Examination of the Accused N. Lurye — 101 Examination of the Accused M. Lurye — 105 Examination of the Accused Ter-Vaganyan — 108 AUGUST 21 (EVENING SESSION) Examination of the Accused Fritz David (Kruglyansky) — 112 Statement by Comrade Vyshinsky, State Attorney of the U.S.S.R. — 115 AUGUST 22 (MORNING SESSION) Speech for the Prosecution by Comrade A.Y. Vyshinsky, State Attorney of the U.S.S.R. — 117 AUGUST 22 (EVENING SESSION) Last Pleas of Mrachkovsky, Evdokimov, Dreitzer, Reingold, Bakayev and Pickel — 165 AUGUST 23 (MORNING SESSION) Last Pleas of Kamenev, Zinoviev, Smirnov, Olberg, Berman-Yurin, Holtzman, N. Lurye and M. Lurye — 169 AUGUST 23 (EVENING SESSION) Last Pleas of Ter-Vaganyan and Fritz David — 173 The Verdict — 174