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193721133Hardcover in cream white boards with black lettering and grey spine with black lettering Tight binding Unmarked text. Edge wear corners bumped This second purge trial involved 17 lesser figures including Karl Radek Yuri Pyatakov and Grigory Sokolnikov. Alexander Beloborodov was also arrested and intended to be tried along with Radek but did not make the confession required of him and so he was not produced in court. Thirteen of the defendants were eventually executed by shooting. The rest received sentences in labor camps. Radek was spared as he implicated others including Nikolai Bukharin Alexei Rykov and Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky setting the stage for the Trial of Military and Trial of the Twenty One. History USSR law Court Trail Execution 031423 The People's Commissariat of Justice of the U.S.S. R hardcover
1938040123Hardcover in cream white boards with black lettering and grey spine with black lettering. Tight binding Unmarked text. Edge wear corners bumped. People's Commissariat of Justice of the U.S.S. R hardcover
193858833Moscow: The People's Commissariat of Justice of the U.S.S.R. 1938. Presumed First Edition First printing thus. Hardcover. Fair. 22 cm. 7 799 1 pages. Errata slip at last page. Cover shows wear and soiling. Edges rubbed and corners bumped. The third show trial in March 1938 known as The Trial of the Twenty-One tied together all the loose threads from earlier trials. It included 21 defendants alleged to belong to the so-called "Bloc of Rightists and Trotskyites" It was now alleged that Bukharin and others had conspired to assassinate Lenin and Stalin numerous times after 1918 and had murdered Soviet writer Maxim Gorky by poison in 1936. The group also stood accused of espionage. Bukharin and others were claimed to have plotted the overthrow and territorial partition of the Soviet Union in collusion with agents of the German and Japanese governments among other preposterous charges. Even sympathetic observers who had stomached the earlier trials found it hard to swallow the new charges as they became ever more absurd and the purge had now expanded to include virtually every living Old Bolshevik leader except Stalin. Stalin also observed some of the trial in person from a hidden chamber in the courtroom. On the first day of the trial Krestinsky caused a sensation when he repudiated his written confession and pleaded not guilty to all the charges. However he changed his plea the next day after "special measures" which dislocated his left shoulder among other things. The Moscow Trials were a series of show trials held in the Soviet Union at the instigation of Joseph Stalin between 1936 and 1938 against Trotskyists and members of Right Opposition of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. There were three Moscow Trials: the Case of the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Center Zinoviev-Kamenev Trial aka "Trial of the Sixteen" 1936 the Case of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center Pyatakov-Radek Trial 1937 and the Case of the Anti-Soviet "Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites" Bukharin-Rykov Trial aka "Trial of the Twenty-One" 1938. The defendants of these were Old Bolshevik party leaders and top officials of the Soviet secret police. Most defendants were charged under Article 58 of the RSFSR Penal Code with conspiring with the Western powers to assassinate Stalin and other Soviet leaders dismember the Soviet Union and restore capitalism. The Moscow Trials led to the execution of many of the defendants. They are generally seen as part of Stalin's Great Purge an attempt to rid the party of current or prior oppositionists especially but not exclusively Trotskyists and any leading Bolshevik cadre from the time of the Russian Revolution or earlier who might even potentially become a figurehead for the growing discontent in the Soviet populace resulting from Stalin's mismanagement of the economy. Stalin's hasty industrialization during the period of the First Five Year Plan and the brutality of the forced agricultural collectivization had led to an acute economic and political crisis in 1928-33 a part of the global problem known as the Great Depression and to enormous suffering on the part of the Soviet workers and peasants. Stalin was acutely conscious of this fact and took steps to prevent it taking the form of an opposition inside the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to his increasingly totalitarian rule. The People's Commissariat of Justice of the U.S.S.R. hardcover
1938004807Moscow Russia: Peoples Commissariat of Justice of the U.S.S.R. 1938. 800pp with errata sheet. Original verbatim english language transcript of the purge trial of Bukharin and several others. Board covers have some wear. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Peoples Commissariat of Justice of the U.S.S.R. hardcover
1966015075Ottawa: Roger Duhamel F.R.S.C. 1966. over sized card stock with paper binding cover is discoloured with smudges and spots creased on the back and front spine has inch rip on top that goes in to some of the pages inside of cover had numbers in ink title page has price in pencil there are a few smudges throughout and tanned pages3 R's Used Books and Hannelore Headley Old & Fine Books Inc. are committed to saving the trees one leaf at the time!. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. Roger Duhamel, F.R.S.C.,
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GB000IDAEV4I3N01Baptist Johnston Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Baptist Johnston (Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty) hardcover
195042102562Toronto: Baptist Johnston Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty 1950. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 933 pages. The Commission was appointed in 1945 to "inquire into and report upon the provincial education system and without derogating from the generality thereof including courses of study text books examinations financing and the general system and scheme of elementary and secondary schools involving public schools separate schools schools for the training of teachers and all other schools under the jurisdiction of the Department of Education as well as the selection and training of teachers inspectors and other officials of such schools and the system of provincial and local school administration." - from page vi. Includes the following sections: The Educational Scene; Aims of Education; Proposed Reorganization of Elementary and Secondary Education; The Pupil's Growth and Progress; Programmes for the Schools of the Reorganized Educational System; Social Spiritual and other Aspects of Education; Centralization and Decentralization in Administration; Development and Present Status of Local School Administration; Local School Administration Under Other Jurisdictions; Local Education Authorities in the proposed Reorganization; Other Aspects of the Local Administration of Education; The Supervisor of Education; The Central Education Authority; Exceptional Children; History of the French Language in teh Publicly Supported Schools of Ontario; Recommendations on the Teaching and Use of the French Language; Origin and Development of Separate Schools in Ontario; Roman Catholic Separate Schools in the Reorganized Educational System; Protestant and Coloured Separate Schools in the Reorganized Educational System; The Teaching Staff of the Publicly Supported Schools of Ontario; Recommendations with Respect to the Professional Preparation of Teachers; Conditions of Service of Teaching Personnel; Community Programmes of Adult Education and Recreation; School Site Plant and Equipment; Other Educative Agencies; The Development of Methods of Financing Education in Ontario; Our Proposed Method of Financing the Educational Programme; Divergence of Opinion Within the Commission; Conclusion; Minority Report and Memoranda; Appendices. Navy boards. Well-preserved with very light wear and soiling externally. Contents clean bright and unmarked. Binding sound. A superior copy of this landmark work. Baptist Johnston (Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty) Hardcover
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1937325583Moscow: People's Commissariat of Justice of the U.S.S.R 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Good copy in quarter cloth over paper-covered boards. Boards dust-toned. Spine bands and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Minor browning to the pages. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: viii 580 p.; 23 cm. Subjects: Anti-Soviet Trotskyite Centre. Justice Administration of Soviet Union. Trials Soviet Union. Soviet Union Politics and government 1936-1953. Genre: History and Politics. Moscow: People's Commissariat of Justice of the U.S.S.R hardcover
0656418184.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
m2381Timaru Herald Christchurch 1886. Paper covers fold out illustration half missing 112pp. Worn & torn covers water stained along edges some pages creased. Only fair. unknown
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2025x-1032499648CRC Pr I Llc 2025. Hardcover. New. 384 pages. 9.18x6.12x9.21 inches. CRC Pr I Llc hardcover
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2022x-3030923649Springer 2022. Hardcover. New. 644 pages. 9.25x6.10x1.50 inches. Springer hardcover
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1896otolJ.C. Juta & Co 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. The boards are quite shelf rubbed and edge worn but remain strong legible and square. Internally there is a retailer's sticker on the front pastedown and a previous owner's signature on the front end page. The pages are quite foxed and tanned throughout but the text remains neat legible and complete. The binding is secure. In very good condition considering the age of the book! JK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. J.C. Juta & Co hardcover
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14-1105-039-0765Brill 2014-07-04. Hardcover. Like New. 6x0x9. Hardcover with printed covers showing light shelf wear otherwise as new. Pages are clean and unmarked. No notes or highlighting. Brill hardcover
2004Q-1575862182Center for the Study of Language and Information 2004-01-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Center for the Study of Language and Information paperback
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