Court Report on the Case of the Anti-Soviet "Right-Trotskyist Bloc", Considered by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR on March 2–13, 1938 (Sudebnyy otchet po delu antisovetskogo "pravo-trotskistskogo bloka"), 1938. In Russian

Судебный отчет по делу антисоветского «право-троцкистского блока», рассмотренному Военной Коллегией Верховного Суда Союза ССР 2–13 марта 1938 г.
Москва: Юридическое издательство Народного комиссариата юстиции СССР, 1938.
708 стр. Твердый переплет. Обычный формат.
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Court Report on the Case of the Anti-Soviet "Right-Trotskyist Bloc", Considered by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR on March 2–13, 1938 (Sudebnyy otchet po delu antisovetskogo "pravo-trotskistskogo bloka").
Moscow: Legal Publishing House of the People's Commissariat of Justice of the USSR, 1938.
708 pp. Hardcover. Standard format.

This volume is the full verbatim report of the Third Moscow Trial, officially known as the "Trial of the Anti-Soviet Right-Trotskyist Bloc", held from March 2 to 13, 1938. It was the largest and most significant of the Moscow show trials during the Great Terror. The published transcript includes the entire court proceedings: the indictment, the testimonies of all 21 defendants—including prominent Bolshevik leaders Nikolai Bukharin, Alexei Rykov, former NKVD chief Genrikh Yagoda, and others—the speeches of the prosecution led by State Prosecutor Andrey Vyshinsky, the final statements, and the verdict.

The defendants were accused of forming a vast conspiracy to overthrow the Soviet state, commit espionage, sabotage, and terrorism, charges formulated under Articles 58¹а, 58², 58⁷, 58⁸, 58⁹, and 58¹¹ of the RSFSR Criminal Code. The trial was characterized by forced confessions and fantastical accusations, such as plotting to assassinate Lenin in 1918 and murdering the writer Maxim Gorky. Eighteen of the defendants were sentenced to death and executed on March 15, 1938; three received prison terms but were later shot in 1941. All defendants except Yagoda were posthumously rehabilitated between 1963 and 1988, underscoring the trial's status as a judicial fabrication. Published by the state's legal press immediately after the trial, this book is a primary source of immense historical significance, documenting a key event of Stalinist political repression.