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"According to Cassidy, the imperial 'show' trials, which began in the 1870s, were a series of 'highly publicized public spectacles that spread the ideas of Russian radicalism even as they condemned the radicals themselves to imprisonment, exile, hard labor, civil death, or execution.'4 They also became a source of 'popular entertainment' that drew large audiences and helped, according Elizabeth A. Wood, create a link in the public imagination between 'revolution and trials.' Georgii Plekhanov, one of Russia's foremost Marxists, saw the 'revolutionary trials in the 1870s and 1880s' as 'the greatest historical drama which is called the trial of the government by the people.'5"
ISBN
9781350083349
Publication Date
6-13-2019
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
City
London
Disciplines
Cultural History | European History | Military History | Other History | Political History | Public History | Slavic Languages and Societies | Social History
Recommended Citation
Crowe, David M. “Late Imperial and Soviet 'Show' Trials, 1878-1938.” In Stalin's Soviet Justice: "Show" Trials, War Crimes Trials, and Nuremberg, edited by David M. Crowe, 31-77. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
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David M. Crowe
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In David M. Crowe (Ed.), Stalin's Soviet Justice: "Show" Trials, War Crimes Trials, and Nuremberg.