This man's death was signal for purge that ushered in the Moscow Trials"" – Antique Print
![This man's death was signal for purge that ushered in the Moscow Trials"", [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c0/c045fdf9d4b0-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This man's death was signal for purge that ushered in the Moscow Trials"" comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The caption card ties this portrait to a man whose death set off one of the darkest episodes of the Soviet 1930s. That man was most likely Sergei Kirov, the Leningrad party chief shot dead inside the Smolny Institute on December 1, 1934. Joseph Stalin used the killing as a pretext for mass arrests and executions, and the purge soon reached old Bolshevik leaders, who were tried in Moscow beginning in 1936. The U.S. Information Agency, which operated from 1953 to 1999, issued this print, so it was made well after the events it refers to.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint by U.S. Information Agency. No. 51-14567. This record contains unverified data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,134 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-159377 |
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