Shvernik Commission (Shvernik's Commission,Russian:комиссия Шверника) was an informal name of the commission of theCPSUCentral CommitteePresidium headed byNikolay Shvernik[1] for the investigation ofpolitical repression in the Soviet Union during the period ofStalin.[2][3] Other members wereAlexander Shelepin,Zinovy Serdyuk,Roman Rudenko,Olga Shatunovskaya,[4]Nikolai Mironov, andVladimir Semichastny.
It was the second major commission of the kind. (The first one was the commission headed byVyacheslav Molotov.) The commission worked from 1961 to 1963 and produced about 200 pages of two reports, which detailed the mechanism of falsification of theshow trials againstBukharin,[5]Zinoviev,Tukhachevsky and many others. The commission based its findings in large part on eyewitness testimonies of formerNKVD workers and victims of repressions, and on many documents. Although it largely failed to prove any of its claims. The commission, under the influence of Khrushchev, recommended torehabilitate every accused with the exception ofKarl Radek andGenrikh Yagoda, because Radek's materials required some further checking, and Yagoda was a criminal and one of the falsifiers of the trials.
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