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Trial by System
In a Russian show trial in the Court of the Supreme Soviet, Moscow, in 1938, Nikolai Bukharin and 20 other leading Communists were charged with plotting, economic sabotage, assassination, terrorism and spying. Like all the defendants, Bukharin pleaded guilty, but he then used the trial to explain his own beliefs and challenge the philosophy of Joseph Stalin. Norman Moss recreates the atmosphere of one of the most bitter of all the purge trials.
Producer RONALD ASTLE BBC Pebble Mill. Stereo
(Re-broadcast Friday 11.0am L W)

Contributors

Unknown:
Nikolai Bukharin
Unknown:
Joseph Stalin.
Unknown:
Norman Moss
Vashasky:
Bill Patterson
Bukharin:
Bob Peck
Krestinsky:
Edwin Richfield
Source: Radio Times

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