Soviet Russia will conquer all the millions of problems that stand in its way, on one condition: as long as the cause of the political education of the broad masses of the people continually advances. We have nothing to be afraid of, if our people fully learns to distinguish who are its friends and who are its enemies. The trial of the Socialist Revolutionaries must and shall be a great step forward in the cause of the political instruction of the very broadest masses in town and country. (Grigorii Zinov'ev, Pravda and Krasnaia gazeta, 20 June 1922) For my part, I considered this trial to be unnecessary: the Socialist Revolu tionaries had been beaten and represented no visible danger at all. (Charles Rappoport, Ma vie, Paris 1926-1927, Vol. 2, p. 80) The Bolsheviks seized power in Russia in October 1917 by staging a coup d'etat, and then established a dictatorship. The new rulers sup pressed all armed resistance in a bloody civil war, after which they made every effort to uproot andexterminate even peaceful political opposition of all kinds. Even now it is impossible in the Soviet Union to subject these developments to critical historical study. The political opponents of the Soviet regime of the time are still regarded by official Soviet his toriography as counter-revolutionaries and the measures taken against them are seen as completely justified.

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Book Title: A Show Trial Under Lenin
Book Subtitle: The Trial of the Socialist Revolutionaries, Moscow 1922
Authors: Marc Jansen
Series Title: Studies in Social History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7606-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague 1982
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-247-2698-1Published: 31 August 1982
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-009-7608-5Published: 22 October 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-7606-1Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 232
Additional Information: Originally published in Dutch
Topics: Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, History, general

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