The Red Book on the Moscow Trials

Target entity: The Red Book on the Moscow Trials
Context triple: [Lev Sedov, notableWork, The Red Book on the Moscow Trials]

• A. Moscow Trials
  The Moscow Trials were a series of highly publicized show trials in the late 1930s Soviet Union, where many Old Bolsheviks and other alleged opponents of Joseph Stalin were forced to confess to fabricated crimes and subsequently executed or imprisoned.
• B. The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials
  The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials is a detailed historical and legal account of the post–World War II Nuremberg war crimes proceedings, written by chief prosecutor Telford Taylor.
• C. Law of the Great Terror
  The Law of the Great Terror was a radical decree passed during the French Revolution that drastically expanded the powers of the Revolutionary Tribunal, curtailed defendants’ rights, and accelerated mass executions at the height of the Reign of Terror.
• D. The History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): Short Course
  The History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): Short Course is a heavily propagandistic official textbook published in 1938 that presented a Stalinist interpretation of Soviet and party history for ideological education.
• E. Leningrad Affair
  The Leningrad Affair was a late-1940s Soviet political purge in which Stalin orchestrated the arrest and execution of prominent Leningrad Party and government officials to eliminate perceived regional rivals and consolidate his power.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: The Red Book on the Moscow Trials
Target entity description: The Red Book on the Moscow Trials is a critical exposé by Trotskyist activist Lev Sedov that denounces the Stalinist show trials of the 1930s as fabricated and politically motivated.

• A. Moscow Trials
  The Moscow Trials were a series of highly publicized show trials in the late 1930s Soviet Union, where many Old Bolsheviks and other alleged opponents of Joseph Stalin were forced to confess to fabricated crimes and subsequently executed or imprisoned.
• B. The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials
  The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials is a detailed historical and legal account of the post–World War II Nuremberg war crimes proceedings, written by chief prosecutor Telford Taylor.
• C. Law of the Great Terror
  The Law of the Great Terror was a radical decree passed during the French Revolution that drastically expanded the powers of the Revolutionary Tribunal, curtailed defendants’ rights, and accelerated mass executions at the height of the Reign of Terror.
• D. The History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): Short Course
  The History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): Short Course is a heavily propagandistic official textbook published in 1938 that presented a Stalinist interpretation of Soviet and party history for ideological education.
• E. Leningrad Affair
  The Leningrad Affair was a late-1940s Soviet political purge in which Stalin orchestrated the arrest and execution of prominent Leningrad Party and government officials to eliminate perceived regional rivals and consolidate his power.
• F. None of above. chosen