Sentence examples for purge trials from inspiring English sources

"On the Russian purge trials".

Markish denounced writers charged in the purge trials of the 1930's.

The Stalinist purge trials of the '30s awoke Mr. Beichman to the reality of Soviet dictatorship.

'Moscow wanted a parallel, outside Soviet borders, to the infamous purge trials, and the targets of attempts to realise such a judicial travesty included George Orwell,' he writes.

In high-profile, carefully scripted purge trials, perceived political opponents of the government were convicted of heinous offenses that they had not committed.

The Ministry of Justice, which played a major role in the staged purge trials of the late nineteen thirties, came under attack after Stalin's death in 1953.

Along with Karl Radek, Pyatakov was the central figure in the second purge trial, or Moscow show trial, of January 1937.

In March 1938 he was a defendant in the last public purge trial, falsely accused of counterrevolutionary activities and of espionage, found guilty, and executed.

The following year, however, he was retried at the first Great Purge trial, found guilty on the fabricated charge of forming a terrorist organization to assassinate Kirov and other Soviet leaders, and executed.

More significantly, on substantive moral grounds, as Hook recognized, it was not tenable for an intellectual movement that charged Stalinism with framing its enemies in purges, trials and rehabilitation camps to be complicit with a movement which would falsely accuse persons of being communist agents or members of the Communist Party.

Purges and trials have punished former civilian officials, but security officers responsible for decades of abuse have largely escaped serious censure.