Author: Krylenko, N. V.
Title: Sudebnyi Protsess "Soiuznoe Biuro" Men'Shevikov Na Skam'e Podsudimykh
Description: Leningradskoe Oblastnoe Izdatel'stvo, 1931. Softcover. First edition; 5 x 7; pp. 1-35; printed stapled beige and brown wraps; small chips off corners of covers; piece of clear tape to upper spine; pages clean; overall in very good condition. The Mensheviks (from the Russian word for "minority") were a faction of the Revolutionary movement which emerged from the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party in 1903. The split had occurred after a heated and unresolved dispute on theoretical and practical issues concerning the Party between Iulii Martov (whom was to become the leader of the Mensheviks) and Lenin. The trial of the "All-Union Bureau" of the Mensheviks was held in March 1931 as part of series of "economic" show trials intended to prove that the social and economic troubles of the Soviet Union were the result of anti-Soviet instigators, nee the Mensheviks. The fourteen defendants, all of which were high-ranking officials in various Soviet economic institutions had, indeed, been involved with the party in the '20s but by the time of the trial all but one had abandoned opposition politics. Nevertheless, in 1930-31 they were singled out as "lacking enthusiasm" for the new course of development of the Soviet Union.They were accused of being part of massive conspiracy aimed at sabotaging the economy and striking a deal with working class people of various Western countries to launch a war of intervention against the Soviet Union. Purportedly, all fourteen of the defendants "confessed" and were sentenced to a total of 53 years imprisonment. OCLC lists 2 copies in institutions one of which is on microfilm. Ill.: 0. 2.

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