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The aim was to close the minds of workers, farmers, and national liberation fighters to the communist movement led by Trotsky, which was continuing along the road opened by the October 1917 Russian Revolution.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In Trotsky’s testimony before the Dewey Commission—published by Pathfinder as \u003cem\u003eThe Case of Leon Trotsky\u003c\/em\u003e—he defends this Marxist perspective and rebuts Stalin’s lies. \u003cem\u003eNot Guilty\u003c\/em\u003e contains the commission’s findings, which helped unmask the frame-ups.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo read full review(s), please click on the REVIEWS \u0026amp; PROMO tab on this page.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This book should be regarded as a primary source that can illuminate the life of Trotsky and the shadier recesses of the Soviet Union of the 1930s.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cnobr\u003e—Choice\u003c\/nobr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The Commission not only cleared Trotsky…but also found that the general ‘conduct of the Moscow trials was such as to convince any unprejudiced person that no effort was made to ascertain the truth’ and found ‘the Moscow trials to be frame-ups.’ ” \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cnobr\u003e—Book\u003c\/nobr\u003e News\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e","published_at":"2025-04-08T15:54:22-04:00","created_at":"2020-12-29T01:20:34-05:00","vendor":"Pathfinder Press","type":"Paper","tags":["Authors_Leon Trotsky","Language_English","Subjects_Lenin and the Communist International","Subjects_Russia Eastern Europe and Balkans","Subjects_Writings of Leon Trotsky"],"price":2300,"price_min":2300,"price_max":2300,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":2300,"compare_at_price_min":2300,"compare_at_price_max":2300,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":37584576938144,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780873488471","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":false,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Not Guilty","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2300,"weight":662,"compare_at_price":2300,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780873488471","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/www.pathfinderpress.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/not-guilty-findings-of-1937-commission-chaired-_by-john-dewey-investigating-charges-against-leon-trotsky-in-moscow-trials_FC.png?v=1744208827","\/\/www.pathfinderpress.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/not-guilty-findings-of-1937-commission-chaired-_by-john-dewey-investigating-charges-against-leon-trotsky-in-moscow-trials_BC.png?v=1744208827"],"featured_image":"\/\/www.pathfinderpress.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/not-guilty-findings-of-1937-commission-chaired-_by-john-dewey-investigating-charges-against-leon-trotsky-in-moscow-trials_FC.png?v=1744208827","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Front cover of Not Guilty","id":13153292419232,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.648,"height":800,"width":518,"src":"\/\/www.pathfinderpress.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/not-guilty-findings-of-1937-commission-chaired-_by-john-dewey-investigating-charges-against-leon-trotsky-in-moscow-trials_FC.png?v=1744208827"},"aspect_ratio":0.648,"height":800,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/www.pathfinderpress.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/not-guilty-findings-of-1937-commission-chaired-_by-john-dewey-investigating-charges-against-leon-trotsky-in-moscow-trials_FC.png?v=1744208827","width":518},{"alt":"Back cover of Not Guilty","id":13153296711840,"position":2,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.648,"height":800,"width":518,"src":"\/\/www.pathfinderpress.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/not-guilty-findings-of-1937-commission-chaired-_by-john-dewey-investigating-charges-against-leon-trotsky-in-moscow-trials_BC.png?v=1744208827"},"aspect_ratio":0.648,"height":800,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/www.pathfinderpress.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/not-guilty-findings-of-1937-commission-chaired-_by-john-dewey-investigating-charges-against-leon-trotsky-in-moscow-trials_BC.png?v=1744208827","width":518}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"“We find the Moscow trials to be frame-ups. We find Leon Trotsky not guilty.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese were the findings of a 1937 commission of inquiry headed by US philosopher John Dewey into the charges against communist leader Leon Trotsky leveled in the Moscow trials.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTrotsky was the chief defendant in Joseph Stalin’s kangaroo courts, in which the central leaders of the Bolshevik Party under V.I. Lenin were framed up and most were executed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStalin’s regime needed the trials to consolidate its counterrevolution against Lenin’s revolutionary internationalist course. The aim was to close the minds of workers, farmers, and national liberation fighters to the communist movement led by Trotsky, which was continuing along the road opened by the October 1917 Russian Revolution.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In Trotsky’s testimony before the Dewey Commission—published by Pathfinder as \u003cem\u003eThe Case of Leon Trotsky\u003c\/em\u003e—he defends this Marxist perspective and rebuts Stalin’s lies. \u003cem\u003eNot Guilty\u003c\/em\u003e contains the commission’s findings, which helped unmask the frame-ups.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo read full review(s), please click on the REVIEWS \u0026amp; PROMO tab on this page.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This book should be regarded as a primary source that can illuminate the life of Trotsky and the shadier recesses of the Soviet Union of the 1930s.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cnobr\u003e—Choice\u003c\/nobr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The Commission not only cleared Trotsky…but also found that the general ‘conduct of the Moscow trials was such as to convince any unprejudiced person that no effort was made to ascertain the truth’ and found ‘the Moscow trials to be frame-ups.’ ” \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cnobr\u003e—Book\u003c\/nobr\u003e News\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e"}
Not Guilty
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Format: Paper
536 Pages
Edition: 1st paperback
Year: 2008
Publisher: Pathfinder Press
ISBN: 9780873488471
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