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of executions. In the following period of terrormass murder was carried
out on different levels. The most spectacular were the trials of ex-leaders of
the Bolshevik PartyLenin’s comrades. With a few exceptionsthe entire
leadership of the revolution was exterminated. The ?rst to be tried were Zi-
noviev and Kamenev for “moral responsibility” – andof coursethey were
found guilty. In a closed trial they were sentenced to five years in prison.
The next act was a second Zinoviev-Kamenev trial in August 1936; with
them were tried major ?gures of the “left opposition.” This was the ?rst of
the great show trials that the Stalinists were to stage repeatedly in the fol-
lowing years. The sixteen accused were charged with carrying out Trotsky’s
orders to attempt to overthrow Stalin with the use of terrorist methods.
Lenin’s old comrades were accused of organizing Kirov’s murderand of
failed attempts on other leadersincluding Lenin and Stalin. They were also
accused of being agents of foreign espionage services. These represented a
curious assortment of countriesfrom EnglandFranceJapanand Ger-
many to Poland. Only one major country was conspicuously missing: the
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