Letter of an old bolshevik
Subtitle: a key to the Moscow trials
Contributors: Y. Z; Y. Z
Publisher: Rand school press
Published: 1937
Place of publication: N[ew] Y[ork] c[ity]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 62
Subjects: Kirov, Sergeĭ Mironovich, -- 1888-1934; Kamenev, Lev Borisovich, -- 1883-1936; Smīrnov, Īvan Nīkītīch, -- 1881-1936; Radek, Karl, -- 1885-1939; Pi︠a︡takov, G. L. -- 1890-1937; Zinovyev, Grigory Yevseyevich, -- 1883-1936; Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936
Other titles: 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