Dewey Commission
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The Dewey Commission (officially the "Commission of Inquiry into the Charges Made against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials") was initiated in March 1937 by the "American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky." It was named after its Chairman, John Dewey.
The commission cleared Trotsky of all charges made during the Moscow Trials and, moreover, exposed the scale of the frame-up of all other defendants during these trials.
The Dewey Commission was widely criticized by Stalinists and fellow travellers for bias and attempts to whitewash Trotsky's record. Such criticisms were also made by Carleton Beals, the only member of the Commission hostile to Trotsky, who resigned in protest during the course of the hearings.
Reference
- Alan B. Spitzer: Historical Truth and Lies About the Past: Reflections on Dewey, Dreyfus, de Man, & Reagan (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1996).
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