‘The materials in this pamphlet are taken from the official court proceedings in the case of the Trotsky-Zinoviev Terrorist Center, held August 19-24, 1936.’

Documents of the ‘Trial of the Sixteen’ or the ‘Case of the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Center’, also known as the Zinoviev-Kamanev Trial. Andrey Vyshinsky, former Menshevik who had once signed an arrest order for Lenin led the prosecution of sixteen Party and Comintern leaders; Grigory Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev, Grigory Yevdokimov, Ivan Bakayev, Sergei Mrachkovsky, Vagarshak Arutyunovich Ter-Vaganyan, Ivan Nikitich Smirnov, Yefim Dreitzer, Isak Reingold, Richard Pickel, Eduard Holtzman, Fritz David, Valentin Olberg, Konon Berman-Yurin, Moissei Lurye, and Nathan Lurye were accused of organizing an international terrorist organization to kill Stalin and conduct mass murder of workers in the USSR. All were found guilt and shot on August 25, 1936 by NKVD lead executioner Vasily Blokhin.

Trotskyism in the Service of Fascism and Against World Peace by A.Y. Vyshinsky. Workers Library Publishers, New York. September, 1936.

Contents: Indictment, Speech for the Prosecution, The Trotskyite-Zinovievite Center – A Gang of Contemptible Terrorists, Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev – Sworn Enemies of the Soviet Union, Double-Dealing, Deception and Provocation – The Principal Methods of the Trotskyites-Zznovievites, The Counter-Revolutionary Terrorist Activities of the Trotskyites-Zinovievites Are Fully Proved, The Trotskyite-Zinovievite Center Killed Comrade Kirov, The Masks Are Torn From the Accused, Dogs Gone Mad Should All Be Shot, Appendix: The Verdict. 68 pages.

Workers Library Publishers replaced Daily Workers Publishers as the main pamphlet printing house of the Communist Party in 1927. International Publishers was originally meant to translate works into English, but became the CP’s main book publisher.

PDF of pamphlet: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/parties/cpusa/anti-trotsky/Trotskyism%20in%20the%20Service%20of%20Fascism.pdf