Soviets Clear 3 Dead Bolsheviks

The Soviet Supreme Court today cleared the names of three prominent old Bolsheviks, Lev Kamenev, Gregory Zinoviev and Karl Radek, who lost their lives in the 1930s during the purges of Kremlin dictator Josef V. Stalin.

The court, said the government newspaper Izvestia, “is returning to these tragic figures their honor and their names” as part of the campaign to stimulate more open discussion of key issues in Soviet political life and to dismantle the system created by Stalin. The three men were as important in their time as Nikolai I. Bukharin, an old Bolshevik rehabilitated in February.