The Great Terror

1 Stalin Prepares

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Blyumkin (the ex-Socialist Revolutionary who had shot the German Ambassador in 1918) had been executed as a secret envoy of Trotsky in 1929, but that was a rather different matter.

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Pyatakov’s speech was welcomed by “prolonged applause.” Zinoviev and Bukharin were not interrupted and gained “applause.” Radek and Kamenev were interrupted, but applauded. Rykov and Tomsky were interrupted and not applauded. But even these last were comparatively well received.