title: Criminal indictment of the “Leningrad Affair”: Context Analysis
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metadata.value: Boldovskiy, K. A.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Brandenberger, D.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-02-07T07:37:44Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-02-07T07:37:44Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2019-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Boldovskiy K. A., Brandenberger D. ‘Criminal indictment of the “Leningrad Affair”: Context Analysis’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 9, no. 4, 2019, pp. 993–1027.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu24.2019.411
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/17039
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: This major campaign of repression that developed in the USSR between 1949 and 1951 remains obscured
  by myth and speculation to the present day. The present article analyzes how Stalin planned the show
  trial and what sort of a “signal” it was to send to his inner circle and lower-ranking officials. To that end, this article
  publishes the official criminal indictment for the “Leningrad Affair,” as well as commentary and an analysis of the
  crimes that were attributed to A. A. Kuznetsov and his comrades-in-arms. The criminal indictment is published
  in its totality here for the first time. This is an important historical source, insofar as it depicts the case in the way
  that the dictator intended it to be viewed. Its inconsistencies and poor argumentation testify to the authorities’
  failure to successfully organize this political show trial and develop a persuasively constructed indictment. The
  article also investigates the process according to which the central “Leningrad Affair” show trial was prepared.
  The authors track the early versions of the indictment and show how Stalin altered the court case in an effort to
  make it more persuasive. The article also demonstrates the bankruptcy of the accusations within the indictment,
  which could have been leveled against any regional strongman in the USSR but were instead made against the
  leadership of only a single party organization. The text of the indictment is rendered here without ellipses and
  furnished with biographical information about the people named within the context of the criminal case. It contains
  more information than the already published sentence of the court in regard to the “Leningrad Affair,” allowing for
  an array of new conclusions to be drawn about the nature of this case.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 9; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Leningrad Affair
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: late Stalinism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: political repressions
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: purges
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: post-war Leningrad
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: A. A. Kuznetsov
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: N. A. Voznesenskiy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: P. S. Popkov
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Criminal indictment of the “Leningrad Affair”: Context Analysis
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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