Vadim Rogovin. 1937. Stalin’s Year of Terror.

CONTENTS

Foreword

Introduction

1 – Preparations for the First Show Trial

2 – The Trial of the Sixteen

3 – «Thirst for Power» or «Restoration of Capitalism»?

4 – «The Molotov Affair»

5 – Results of a «Rotten Compromise»

6 – Political Repercussions of the Trial of the Sixteen

7 – Trotsky Interned

8 – Leon Sedov’s Red Book

9 – Ten Percent of the Truth, or What Really Happened

10 – Candidate Defendants at Future Trials

11 – From Charges of Terror to New Amalgams

12 – The Beginning of the Yezhov Period

13 – The Kemerovo Trial

14 – The December Plenum of the Central Committee

15 – The Trial of the »Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center»

16 – Trotsky Returns to Battle

17 – Trotsky on the Goals of the Moscow Trials

18 – A Tyrant’s Revenge

19 – The Anti-Semitic Subtext of the Moscow Trials

20 – Why Did They Confess?

21 – Bukharin and Rykov in the Clutches of a «Party Investigation»

22 – The Death of Ordzhonikidze

23 – Two Letters from Bukharin

24 – Prelude to the February-March Plenum

25 – The February-March Plenum: Bukharin and Rykov Stand Accused  

26 – Bukharin and Rykov Defend Themselves

27 – The Plenum Delivers its Verdict

28 – The Fate of the «Letter of an Old Bolshevik»

29 – The February-March Plenum: Questions of Party Democracy

30 – The February-March Plenum on Sabotage

31 – Why Did Stalin Need «Sabotage»?

32 – The NKVD Stands Accused

33 – The February-March Plenum on «Party Work»

34 – Stalin Issues Directives

35 – The Election Campaign in the Party

36 – The Dewey Commission

37 – Trotsky in the Curved Mirror of Anti-Communism

38 – Trotsky on Bolshevism and Stalinism

39 – The Hunting Down of Trotskyists Abroad

40 – The Breakthrough and Death of Ignace Reiss

41 – «Stay Out of Range of the Artillery Fire!»

42 – Trotsky on the Spanish Revolution

43 – The Barcelona Uprising

44 – Trotskyists in the Camps

45 – «The Bureaucracy Is Terrorized»

46 – Reasons for Reprisals against the Generals

47 – Prelude to the Purge of the Army

48 – The Stalin-Hitler Provocation

49 – Preparing the Trial of the Generals

50 – The Trial of the Generals

51 – Looking Ahead Fifteen Years

52 – Was There a Military Conspiracy?

53 – The Ballad of General Orlov

54 – The Secret of the Tukhachevsky Affair

55 – The June Plenum of the Central Committee