In the
New Republic, Joshua Yaffa
discusses the Moscow trial of the twelve May 6 defendants, which began today, and sets it in the historical and political context of Russia's show trials of the Stalin era.
The May 6 defendants will be cast as the foot soldiers of a would-be putsch, with Udaltsov, in his scheming with foreigners, playing a role loosely modeled on Trotsky’s.
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