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But there is an immense gap between agitating against a dictator and a conspiracy on the scale claimed at the show trials. How then do we explain the weird complexity of the confessions and the sangfroid of the accused? They drank tea, had newspapers in their pockets and often looked toward the public.

The whole thing was less like a criminal trial than a debate carried on in a conversational tone by educated men. Before senior party leaders were put on trial, others less exalted had been through the same ordeal. As an exiled official of the party, Rafael Abramovich Rein, told a Berlin rally in March of that year, the defendants had confessed to all kinds of impossible meetings and contacts.

For example, contacts had been cited that he knew—given that many of them were supposed to have involved him—had simply never happened. Prisoners are kept in strict isolation, frequently in windowless rooms, in which they lose all sense of time. They are continually threatened with shooting, and put up against the wall. And all this continues until the accused, finally, gives in.

This ends with the defendant simply signing and then obediently repeating in court everything that has been dictated or suggested to him by Soviet 48 justice. Yes, he agreed, those who had been accused of crimes were often worked over , during interrogation. It is possible, at the end, that some of the confessors may have come to believe that in toeing one last party line, they were somehow doing the right thing.

And how could men as intelligent as Ambassador Davies, a good portion of the diplomatic corps, a job lot of foreign correspondents, many independent intellectuals, and courageous labor leaders the world over not see through the dark farce of the proceedings in Moscow? Clearly, Russians had private doubts about the veracity of the confessions. From to , Lyubov Shapor- ina, wife of the composer Yuri Shaporin, kept a diary, which is now in a library in Saint Petersburg.

They are all party members who have made it through all the purges And what about the things that are not being said at the trial? Think how much more terrible they must be. She seems to be beyond belief or disbelief. But Shaporina was a member of the intelligentsia, an elite that had been an earlier target of the Stalinists.

Many of her compatriots were more credulous. The peasants had been reorganized into collective farms or else had left the land to find work in new plants and mines. Millions had starved; millions had moved; millions had joined the Communist Party, mostly for practical rather than ideological reasons.

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At certain points during the Great Experiment, packs of feral children were to be found living wild in the cities and towns. Hardly surprisingly, all kinds of strange things had happened. People had acquired positions of expertise or leadership despite their lack of qualifications for either. Raw engineers had been turned out from new institutes and immediately assumed complete responsibility for machinery they barely understood. Managers whose knowledge of running large enterprises was rudimentary were appointed nonetheless. And enormous discussions raged among senior Bolsheviks about whether and when to apply the brakes on the runaway train.

In other words, evil was not a consequence of something en- demic in the system but of external, conscious decisions by ruthless enemies.

Eleven were given the death sentence, which was carried out on five of them. During these proceedings, the prosecution alleged the existence of a clandestine Industrial Party two thousand strong, which, in collaboration with anti-Communist Russians based in Paris and with the assistance of French intelligence, planned to overthrow communism. Five were sentenced to death, but their sentences were later commuted.

Two of the British engineers confessed. So, by the time of the murder of Kirov in December , there was a long history of trials and confessions, of elaborate plots and complex conspiracies, all adding up to the idea that there was a constantly shifting but ever-present group in Soviet society determined to wreck progress by any means necessary. First, Nikolayev—the assassin of Kirov—asserted at his trial, just before New Year , that Trotsky may have contributed five thousand rubles to the plotters. Two weeks later, at the Moscow Center Trial, Zinoviev, Kamenev, and others were given prison sentences for having organized counterrevolutionary activities, and thus having incited the assassins of Kirov.

By the end of July of the same year, Kamenev and thirty-seven others had been tried for plotting against Stalin. Two were shot and Kamenev received yet another long prison sentence. By August , a doubtless exhausted Kamenev was back in the dock for the first of the great show trials, this time with his longtime ideological soulmate Zinoviev and a number of others, in what the authorities called the Case of the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Center or, more colloquially, the Main Center.

This time every single one of the defendants, including Kamenev, was shot—not before, however, implicating Pyatakov and others yet to be tried in their testimonies. One trial led to another.

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And each added a new element. As one bestselling apologia for Stalinism, printed in the United States during the Second World War, had it, there had been three layers of Trotskyism uncovered. Layer two, the Trotskyite Parallel Center, led by Pyatakov, was charged with sabotage. And finally, the most important and secret layer was the Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites, with Bukharin as its organizing genius. Similar thoughts must have impressed themselves on the minds of millions of ordinary Russians.

Had Pyatakov not given his assent and backing to the prosecution of the Industrial Party? Had Bukharin not stayed in his Politburo seat during the arraignment of both? And if the Mensheviks had been guilty of such strange and complex plots—as everyone agreed they were—then why should not Pyatakov be guilty too? As early as December , the leading Communist V. Kuibyshev could address a plenum of the Central Committee with this dire warning of the dangers and treacheries ahead: The enemy has been dislodged, but the enemy has not given up.

He has become hardened. He will resist and oppose us fiercely. The threats of an intervention—this is the other side of the same coin We demand of a leader of the party and of a leader of the Soviet state a relentless struggle against all attempts at concealing ideologically class-alien tasks from us.

The Stalinist Buttress To some extent, foreign sympathizers with the Soviet Union and the cause of the international proletariat had been subjected to the same indoctrination process as those inside the country. During the civil war of , armies from the United States, Britain, France, and Japan had all intervened to lend assistance to a variety of anti- Soviet Russian generals and admirals. Not only were Soviet sympathizers inclined to believe that hostile forces would use any opening they could to destroy communism in the future, but many of them also routinely disbelieved everything their own governments or newspapers said about anything, let alone about Russia.

Their pragmatism led them to endorse the tough but concrete efforts made by the Stalinists to create their new society, as opposed to the windy posturing of the Trotskyists. A heavy investment had been made, emotionally and politically, in the success of the new civilization. And that was even before the rise of fascism. And the trouble was that if you lost faith in the process, then all was lost. What about men like Ambassador Davies, then? What could he possibly have to gain from being credulous about the Pyatakov trial?

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The defector Orlov made this claim, and in the post-Stalin era, when Khrushchev was leading the campaign to loosen the grip that the dead dictator still had on large sections of the population, the hint was dropped that Orlov might have been right. But, like Hitler, Stalin had grasped the opportunity when it was presented to him.

Torture and duress did the rest. Stalin, then, was turning what h q feared might be the case into fact. The French writer Romain Rol- land, like Feuchtwanger, was granted an audience with the Soviet leader. It so happens that some of these librarians were recruited by our enemies to commit acts of terror. For the total annihilation of all enemies, both themselves and their clan! In the hunt for saboteurs and wreckers, it was most natural to start with those who were currently in opposition, and then equally natural to move on to those who once had been in opposition.

Chuyev asked about the trials and the purges, and asked whether it was true that Pyatakov and friends had been shot because of their ideas. Tomsky and Zinoviev did get together. They met at their dacha. They had their people everywhere, in the army and elsewhere. They had formed organizations spread out in chains. How could one let this happen freely? Stalin was a man of great historical will. Nothing of the sort! Most modern theories have been conceived as a kind of historical revolt against the official version of events, but for authoritarian regimes in transitional periods, the idea of conspiracy becomes convenient for the authorities themselves, and also offers a painless explanation for massive failure.

Because, if it were true, then the great problems of state socialism could be solved by rooting out the plotters. Reassuring but, as in the case of Comrade Pyatakov, probably wrong.


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