Vagarshak Ter-Vaganyan
Vagarshak Arutyunovich Ter-Vaganyan (Armenian: Վաղարշակ Հարությունի Տեր-Վահանյան, 1893–1936) was an Armenian Soviet Communist Party leader, journalist and functionary who was one of the first victims of Joseph Stalin's Great Purge. Ter-Vaganyan was one of sixteen Soviet intellectuals who stood as defendants during the Moscow Show Trials.[1] He was accused of being part of the Trotskyite-Zinovievite centre which allegedly prepared terrorist acts against Stalin, Klim Voroshilov, Andrei Zhdanov, Lazar Kaganovich, Sergo Ordzhonikidze, Stanislav Kosior, and Pavel Postyshev.[2] Under pressure, Ter-Vaganyan admitted his "guilt."[3] He was shot and his personal property was confiscated by the Soviet Union.[4]
See also[]
- Armenian SSR
- Aghasi Khanjian
- Moscow Trials
References[]
- ^ Moscow Trials: Organization by the United Trotskyite-Zinovievite Centre of Terroristic Acts Against Comrades Voroshilov, Zhdanov, Kaganovich, Kossior, Orjonikidze and Postyshev, August 19, 1936. Marxists.org.
- ^ Moscow Trials: Examination of the Accused Ter-Vaganyan, August 21, 1936. Marxists.org.
- ^ Moscow Trials: Last Pleas By Ter-Vaganyan, August 23, 1936. Marxists.org.
- ^ Moscow Trials: Verdict, August 23, 1936. Marxists.org.
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