Sentence:  In each of the <WSD>last</WSD> , the trial marked the beginning of a new course : in Moscow the liquidation of the Old Bolsheviks and the tightening of Stalin 's dictatorship ; in the United States the initiation of militant anti Communism , with the repentant ex Communist in the vanguard . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  coming after all others in time or space or degree or being the only one remaining