High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Leningrad Affair, or Leningrad case, was a series of criminal cases fabricated in the late 1940s–early 1950s in order to accuse a number of prominent members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union of treason and intention to create an anti-Soviet organization out of the Leningrad Party cell. Researchers argue that the motivation behind the cases was Stalin's fear of competition from the younger and popular Leningrad leaders - who had been feted as heroes following the city's siege. Stalin's desire to keep power was combined with his deep distrust of anyone from St. Petersburg/Leningrad from the time of Stalin's involvement in the Russian Revolution, Russian Civil War, execution of Zinoviev and the Right Opposition. All of the accused were later rehabilitated during the Khrushchev Thaw, many of them posthumously.

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