abstract:The Moscow Trials were a series of three show trials held in the Soviet Union at the instigation of Joseph Stalin between 1936 and 1938. The Moscow Trials included the Trial of the Sixteen, the Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center, and the Trial of the Twenty-One.
Cronkitewaschief United Press correspondentat the Nuremberg war crimes trials, and then from 1946 to 1948 was the agency's chief correspondent in Moscow.