Show Trials: Stalinist Purges in Eastern Europe, 1948-1954

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• CONTENTS vii
• LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ix
• PREFACE xi
• Chapter 1 - INTRODUCTION 1
• Chapter 2 - PRELUDE IN ALBANIA 5
• Chapter 3 - THE KOSTOV TRIAL IN BULGARIA 13
• Chapter 4 - THE FIELD CONNECTION 25
• Chapter 5 - THE ROAD TO THE RAJK TRIAL 33
• Chapter 6 - PREPARATIONS FOR THE MODEL TRIAL 43
• Chapter 7 - THE RAJK TRIAL 59
• Chapter 8 - THE UNLEASHED TERROR IN PRAGUE 73
• Chapter 9 - THE SLÁNSKÝ TRIAL 83
• Chapter 10 - THE REINTERPRETED SHOW TRIALS IN ROMANIA 93
• Chapter 11 - THE INTERRUPTED SHOW TRIALS IN EAST GERMANY 113
• Chapter 12 - THE POLISH WAY OF SHOW TRIALS 135

• Title Page iii
• CONTENTS vii
• LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ix
• PREFACE xi
• Chapter 1 - INTRODUCTION 1
• Chapter 2 - PRELUDE IN ALBANIA 5
• Chapter 3 - THE KOSTOV TRIAL IN BULGARIA 13
• Chapter 4 - THE FIELD CONNECTION 25
• Chapter 5 - THE ROAD TO THE RAJK TRIAL 33
• Chapter 6 - PREPARATIONS FOR THE MODEL TRIAL 43
• Chapter 7 - THE RAJK TRIAL 59
• Chapter 8 - THE UNLEASHED TERROR IN PRAGUE 73
• Chapter 9 - THE SLÁNSKÝ TRIAL 83
• Chapter 10 - THE REINTERPRETED SHOW TRIALS IN ROMANIA 93
• Chapter 11 - THE INTERRUPTED SHOW TRIALS IN EAST GERMANY 113
• Chapter 12 - THE POLISH WAY OF SHOW TRIALS 135
• Chapter 13 - CONSEQUENCES AND CONCLUSIONS 159
• NOTES 165
• SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 179
• INDEX 183
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR 195