There is evidence that more than half the people killed by Stalin's secret police at the time were previously loyal Bolsheviks and members of the party itself. ... Many of the original leaders of the Party, old Bolsheviks like Zinoviev, Kamenov and Bukharin, who still had the respect of many, found themselves on trial. ...

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