| Chapter | pg # |
| Foreword | ix |
| Introduction | xi |
| 1. Preparations for the First Show Trial | 1 |
| 2. The Trial of the Sixteen | 14 |
| 3. "Thirst for Power" or "Restoration of Capitalism"? | 26 |
| 4. "The Molotov Affair" | 30 |
| 5. Results of a "Rotten Compromise" | 36 |
| 6. Political Repercussions of the Trial of the Sixteen | 40 |
| 7. Trotsky Interned | 46 |
| 8. Leon Sedov’s Red Book | 52 |
| 9. Ten Percent of the Truth, or What Really Happened | 60 |
| 10. Candidate Defendants at Future Trials | 67 |
| 11. From Charges of Terror to New Amalgams | 83 |
| 12. The Beginning of the Yezhov Period | 87 |
| 13. The Kemerovo Trial | 96 |
| 14.The December Plenum of the Central Committee | 98 |
| 15. The Trial of the "Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center" | 113 |
| 16. Trotsky Returns to Battle | 130 |
| 17. Trotsky on the Goals of the Moscow Trials | 139 |
| 18. A Tyrant’s Revenge | 147 |
| 19. The Anti-Semitic Subtext of the Moscow Trials | 154 |
| 20. Why Did They Confess? | 164 |
| 21. Bukharin and Rykov in the Clutches of a "Party Investigation" | 179 |
| 22. The Death of Ordzhonikidze | 185 |
| 23. Two Letters from Bukharin | 199 |
| 24. Prelude to the February-March Plenum | 203 |
| 26. Bukharin and Rykov Defend Themselves | 223 |
| 27. The Plenum Delivers its Verdict | 227 |
| 28. The Fate of the "Letter of an Old Bolshevik" | 231 |
| 29. The February-March Plenum: Questions of Party Democracy | 239 |
| 30. The February-March Plenum on Sabotage | 247 |
| 31. Why Did Stalin Need "Sabotage"? | 263 |
| 32. The NKVD Stands Accused | 276 |
| 33. The February-March Plenum on "Party Work" | 281 |
| 34. Stalin Issues Directives | 286 |
| 35. The Election Campaign in the Party | 298 |
| 36. The Dewey Commission | 305 |
| 37. Trotsky in the Curved Mirror of Anti-Communism | 310 |
| 38. Trotsky on Bolshevism and Stalinism | 312 |
| 39. The Hunting Down of Trotskyists Abroad | 323 |
| 40. The Breakthrough and Death of Ignace Reiss | 327 |
| 41. "Stay Out of Range of the Artillery Fire!" | 335 |
| 42. Trotsky on the Spanish Revolution | 349 |
| 43. The Barcelona Uprising | 357 |
| 44. Trotskyists in the Camps | 374 |
| 45. "The Bureaucracy Is Terrorized" | 393 |
| 46. Reasons for Reprisals against the Generals | 400 |
| 47. Prelude to the Purge of the Army | 411 |
| 48. The Stalin-Hitler Provocation | 416 |
| 49. Preparing the Trial of the Generals | 425 |
| 50. The Trial of the Generals | 441 |
| 51. Looking Ahead Fifteen Years | 448 |
| 52. Was There a Military Conspiracy? | 458 |
| 53. The Ballad of General Orlov | 465 |
| 54. The Secret of the Tukhachevsky Affair | 470 |
| 55. The June Plenum of the Central Committee | 483 |
| Notes | 501 |
| Name Index | 519 |
| Subject Index | 537 |
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