The Moscow Trials (Part 1: the investigation)

Very good shorter video on the topic by Tovarich Endymion:    • Видео   MY SOURCES: The sources didn't all fit in the description. Full list here: https://mltheory.wordpress.com/2017/0... Lenin, Summing-Up Speech On Party Unity And The Anarcho-Syndicalist Deviation http://www.marxistsfr.org/archive/len... Trotsky's letters about the Bloc: Library of Harvard College 13905c, 1010, 4782 quoted in Pierre Broué’s The “Bloc” of the Oppositions against Stalin. Available at https://mltheory.wordpress.com/2014/0... Sedov, The Red Book https://www.marxists.org/history/etol... Getty, Origins of the Great Purges: The Soviet Communist Party Reconsidered, 1933-1938 https://books.google.fi/books?id=R5zx... Getty on the Kirov Murder: Arch Getty, the H-RUSSIA discussion list August 24, 2000. quoted here http://clogic.eserver.org/2009/furr.pdf Alexander Zinoviev, The remorse of a dissident quoted here: https://communismgr.blogspot.fi/2016/...) Jules Humbert-Droz's statement: ‘De Lénin à Staline, Dix Ans Au Service de L’ Internationale Communiste 1921-31’ available at http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org... Tokaev, Comrade X. Publisher, Harvill Press, 1956 (page 43) https://books.google.fi/books?redir_e... Ibid. (page 68) https://books.google.fi/books?redir_e... Tokaev, Grigori. Betrayal of an Ideal, Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1955 https://archive.org/stream/betrayalof... Letter from Marshall Budyanni to Commissar for Defense Kliment Voroshilov (June 26, 1937) Colonel Alksnis interviews Elementy, 2000 & Bobrov, Vladimir L’vovich Transcript of a recorded conversation with Deputy V.I. Alksnis quoted here http://clogic.eserver.org/2009/furr.pdf Molotov Remembers quoted here: https://espressostalinist.com/categor... Trotsky, Problem of the Ukraine https://www.marxists.org/archive/trot... Trotsky, On the Eve of the Congress https://www.marxists.org/archive/trot... Trotsky, On the Kirov Assassination https://www.marxists.org/archive/trot... Trotsky, Are There Limits to the Fall? https://www.marxists.org/archive/trot... Trotsky, Pour sa propre sauvegarde, la bureaucratie entretient la terreur (26 September 1935). L'appareil policier du stalinisme (Paris: Union générale d'éditions, 1976), pp. 85-87. Trotsky, Que signifie la capitulation de Rakovsky? (31 March 1934). La lutte, pp. 59—60. Trotsky, Le gouvernement soviétique applique-t-il toujours les principes définis il y a vingt ans? (13 January 1938). La lutte, pp. 159—160. Trotsky, A Political Dialogue, pp. 156, 158. Trotsky, A Fresh Lesson: After the "Imperialist Peace" at Munich (10 October 1938). Writings, vol. 11, p. 68. Trotsky, Stalin After the Finnish Experience (13 March 1940). Writings, vol. 12, p. 160. Zborowski reports 8 feb. 1837 & 11 feb. 1938, quoted in Bertrand M. Patenaude, Stalin's Nemesis Tukhachevsky's testimony published in Molodaia Gvardiia issue 10 of 1994 quoted here: http://clogic.eserver.org/2009/furr.pdf Geoffrey Bailey, The Conspirators (page 215) https://books.google.fi/books?redir_e... Yuri Yemelianov, The Tukhachevsky Conspiracy http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org... Hitler read Trotsky's Autobiography: Konrad Heiden, Der Fuehrer: Hitler's rise to power (page 318) https://books.google.fi/books?redir_e... Anna Strong, The Soviets Expected It. New York: The Dial press, 1941, p. 134 available here http://www.stalinsociety.org/2016/04/... Alexander Werth, quoted in Harpal Brar, Perestroika: The Complete Collapse of Revisionism (1992) p. 161 here: https://books.google.fi/books?redir_e... Also here: http://marxism.halkcephesi.net/Ludo%2... Full book in Russian here:http://www.cpgb-ml.org/download/publi... Vlasov and Vlasovites. New Times 44 (1990), pp. 36—40. "Why I embarked on the road of struggle against Bolshevism" available here: http://marxism.halkcephesi.net/Ludo%2... Frederick Ludwig Carsten, "New Evidence against Marshal Tukhachevskii" in 'New Light On Old Stories About Marshal Tukhachevskii : Some Documents Reconsidered'