The letter of an old bolshevik
Subtitle: a key to the Moscow trials.
Contributors: Y. Z.
Publisher: G. Allen & Unwin
Published: 1938
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 79
Subjects: Kirov, Sergei  Mironovich, -- 1886-1934.; Zinovyev, Grigory Yevseyevich, -- 1883-1936.; Kamenev, Lev Borisovich, -- 1883-1936.; Smirnov, Ivan Nikitich, -- 1881-1936.; Radek, Karl, -- 1885-1939.; Pi Łatakov, Georgii  Leonidovich, -- 1890-1937.; Soviet Union -- Politics and government.
Other titles: The Moscow trials.
Notes: Signed: Y. Z.

The letter relates to events growing out of the Kirov assassination, Dec. 1 1934, and the circumstances surrounding the Zinoviev-Kamenev-Smirnov trial of August, 1936, and the Radek-Piatakov trial of January 1937. It appeared first in two parts in the Socialist messenger, Dec. 22, 1936 and Jan. 17, 1937. It was published subsequently in several languages in the information bulletin of the Labor and socialist international. The translation published here was specially prepared from the Russian original. cf Translator's preface.