Half-title: Transcript of proceedings in the hearings of the Preliminary commission of inquiry into the charges made against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow trials, held April 10 to 17, 1937 at Avenida Londres, 127, Coyoacan, Mexico. Reported by Albert M. Glotzer, court reporter of Chicago, Illinois.

Counsel for the Preliminary commission, John F. Finerty; counsel for Leon Trotsky, Albert Goldman; witnesses, Leon D. Trotsky and Jan Frankel.

"Hearings of the Preliminary commission of inquiry, but none of the documents introduced in evidence, save for excerpts actually read into the record. A later volume will contain the report of the full Commission, together with records of further hearings both here and abroad, and documents accepted in evidence by the Commission."--p. [xiii] A volume entitled, "Not guilty; report of the Commission of inquiry ..." appeared in 1938, with a statement (p. xi) that "the records of sub-commissions and the documents in the case will be published in a subsequent volume."

"First edition."

"List of exhibits": p. xi-xii.