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DESCRIPTION:Sun, Oct 8, 2017: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm\nThe Russian Revolution and The 
 Moscow Trials:\nWhat the evidence showed\n\nIn the western world, and it 
 includes a majority those who identify themselves as Marxists, it is an 
 article of faith today that the three 1936, 1937 & 1938 Moscow Trials of 
 high Party and state officials and the military court martial of Marshal 
 Mikhail Tukhachevsky and 7 other high level commanders were “Kangaroo 
 Court” affairs; that the defendants in these three trials, a total of 68, 
 were innocent of the charges to which most if not all themselves admitted. 
 \n\nSome of these defendants were posthumously rehabilitated by 
 Khrushchev’s Commission and the rest by Gorbachev’s Commission, set up 
 to examine these men, with the notable exception of Leon Trotsky. These 
 men, it is prevailing wisdom, were eliminated so that Stalin could be the 
 absolute dictator of the USSR or that he was a paranoid leader who damaged 
 his own party, state and the military just as the USSR was facing a 
 determined enemy in Hitler’s Germany. But what does the evidence show? 
 \nWe will examine that in this presentation by following the development of 
 the revolution from 1903 onwards thru these trials.\n\nRaj Sahai is a 
 researcher long associated with NPML and has spent the past 26 years 
 studying the history of the USSR, in particular the history of 1903 thru 
 1956.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/09/29/18803317.php
SUMMARY:The Russian Revolution and The Moscow Trials: What the evidence showed
LOCATION:Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library\n6501 Telegraph Ave. (at 65th St)\nOakland, 
 CA 94609
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/09/29/18803317.php
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