La diffusion des procès de Moscou en France : un exemple de « glasnost' » stalinienne

In the thirties, the Soviet authorities released in Europe the transcripts of court proceedings taken in the course of four prominent trials : the trial of the Industrial Party in 1931, the trial of the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Centre in 1936, the trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyite Centre in 1937 and the trial of the Anti-Soviet "Bloc of Right-wingers and Trotskyites" in 1938. Instruments of propaganda and counter-propaganda, these documents were intended by the leadership of the Central Committee of the CPSU to generate an image of their regime in Europe that would serve their interests. The recent declassification of some archival materials has facilitated the analysis of this image that the Soviet authorities designed for Western consumption on the eve of the Second World War.Lemagnen Catherine. La diffusion des procès de Moscou en France : un exemple de « glasnost' » stalinienne. In: Revue Russe n°37, 2011. L’auto-construction de l’image de la Russie et de la France au fil du temps. pp. 43-52