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.

Accused: 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 588, 19 and 588, 5811 of the Criminal Code of the R.S.F.S.R.

Trial dates: August 19-24, 1936 (Moscow)

First Published: People's Commissariat of Justice of the U.S.S.R., Moscow 1936

Source: Artbin, based on ?

Translated: ?

Transcription/Markup: Artbin/Brian Baggins

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August 19 (morning session)

Indictment

I. The Trotskyite-Zinovievite United Terrorist Centre

II. The United Trotskyite-Zinovievite Centre and the Assassination of Comrade S. M. Kirov

III. Organization by the United Trotskyite-Zinovievite Centre of Terroristic Acts Against Comrades Voroshilov, Zhdanov, Kaganovich, Kossior, Orjonikidze and Postyshev

Examination of the Accused Mrachkovsky

Examination of the Accused Evdokimov

August 19 (evening session)

Examination of the Accused Dreitzer

Examination of the Accused Reingold

Examination of the Accused Bakayev

Examination of the Accused Pickel

August 20 (morning session)

Examination of the Accused Kamenev

Examination of the Witness Yakovlev

Examination of the Accused Zinoviev

Examination of the Witness Safonova

August 20 (evening session)

Examination of the Accused I.N. Smirnov

Examination of the Accused Olberg

Examination of the Accused Berman-Yurin

August 21 (morning session)

Examination of the Accused Holtzman

Examination of the Accused N. Lurye

Examination of the Accused M. Lurye

Examination of the Accused Ter-Vaganyan

August 21 (evening session)

Examination of the Accused Fritz David (Kruglyansky)

Statement by Comrade Vyshinsky, State Attorney of the U.S.S.R.

August 22 (morning session)

Speech for the Prosecution by Comrade A.Y. Vyshinsky, State Attorney of the U.S.S.R.

The Trotskyite-Zinovievite Centre - A gang of Contemptible Terrorists

Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev - Sworn Enimies of the Soviet Union

Double-dealing, Deception and Provocation - The Principal Methods of the Trotskyites-Zinovievites

The Counter-Revolutionary Terroristic Activities of the Trotskyites-Zinovievites are Fully Proved

The Trotskyite-Zinovievite Centre Killed Comrade Kirov

The Masks Are Torn From the Accused

Dogs Gone Mad Should All Be Shot

August 22 (evening session)

Last Pleas of Mrachkovsky, Evdokimov, Dreitzer, Reingold, Bakayev and Pickel

August 23 (morning session)

Last Pleas of Kamenev, Zinoviev, Smirnov, Olberg, Berman-Yurin, Holtzman, N. Lurye and M. Lurye

August 23 (evening session)

Last Pleas of Ter-Vaganyan and Fritz David

August 24

The Verdict

Further Reading:

Pravda's mistakes on the trial of the Zinovievites and Trotskyites, Stalin