SUPERANNO How did loyal servants of the Soviet state reconcile themselves to the excesses of Stalin's regime? Why did they become its victims? A fictionalized yet historically faithful, gripping account about four Soviet citizens and a German expatriate whose lives intersected at the infamous 1937 Moscow show trial. Under arrest but summoned as ¿witnesses,¿ their false testimony sent a score of top Party members to the executioner and left Stalin the undisputed leader of the USSR. Original