The Red Book On The Moscow Trial
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image; appears unread.
In the shadow of Stalinist terror, The Red Book on The Moscow Trial stands as one of the most courageous acts of political defiance of the twentieth century — a meticulously assembled counter-indictment of the infamous show trials that sent dozens of Old Bolsheviks to their deaths on fabricated charges. Compiled and edited by Leon Sedov, the exiled son of Leon Trotsky, this essential document presents a systematic, evidence-based demolition of the Soviet prosecution's case, exposing the confessions extracted under duress and the judicial machinery of Stalinist repression in chilling detail. Sedov's work stands as a landmark in dissident political literature, written under conditions of profound personal danger — he would himself die under suspicious circumstances in Paris in 1938, almost certainly at the hands of Soviet agents. His meticulous, forensic style anticipates the great works of anti-totalitarian scholarship that would follow, and the documents he gathered chronicle the mechanics of state-manufactured guilt with devastating clarity. For historians, students of political repression, and anyone seeking to understand how justice can be perverted in service of power, this volume remains an indispensable and haunting testament.
Author: Leon Sedov
Format: Paperback
Published: 1980, New Park Publications Ltd, London
Genre: Politics & law
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image; appears unread.
In the shadow of Stalinist terror, The Red Book on The Moscow Trial stands as one of the most courageous acts of political defiance of the twentieth century — a meticulously assembled counter-indictment of the infamous show trials that sent dozens of Old Bolsheviks to their deaths on fabricated charges. Compiled and edited by Leon Sedov, the exiled son of Leon Trotsky, this essential document presents a systematic, evidence-based demolition of the Soviet prosecution's case, exposing the confessions extracted under duress and the judicial machinery of Stalinist repression in chilling detail. Sedov's work stands as a landmark in dissident political literature, written under conditions of profound personal danger — he would himself die under suspicious circumstances in Paris in 1938, almost certainly at the hands of Soviet agents. His meticulous, forensic style anticipates the great works of anti-totalitarian scholarship that would follow, and the documents he gathered chronicle the mechanics of state-manufactured guilt with devastating clarity. For historians, students of political repression, and anyone seeking to understand how justice can be perverted in service of power, this volume remains an indispensable and haunting testament.