In this video we discuss how Stalin went to court in April 1918, as part of a conflict with the Menshevik leader Julius Martov. While a minor court case, this incident exemplifies the state of the press in early Soviet Russia, and how it factored into the overarching conflict between the Bolsheviks and the opposition parties.
Timestamps
- 00:00 - Introduction
- 00:24 - Martov's Article
- 01:15 - Background: Stalin's Robberies
- 02:17 - First Trial
- 04:28 - Second Trial
- 05:41 - Soviet Executive Fight
- 06:22 - Third Trial
- 07:45 - Aftermath
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Bibliography
- Archives of the following newspapers: Izvestiia, Pravda, Vpered (Moscow, 1917–18).
- Brovkin, Vladimir. The Mensheviks After October: Socialist Opposition and the Rise of the Bolshevik Dictatorship. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.
- Kotkin, Stephen. Statin. Vol. 1: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928. New York: Penguin Press, 2014.
- Kun, Miklôs. Stalin: An Unknown Portrait. Budapest: CEU Press, 2003.
- Rendle, Matthew. "Defining the 'Political' Crime: Revolutionary Tribunals in Early Soviet Russia," Europe-Asia Studies 65, no. 9 (2013): 1771–1788.
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