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During 1926-1948 the Chairman of the Collegium was Vasili Ulrikh .

The role of the Military Collegium drastically changed since June 1934, when it was assigned the duty to consider cases that fell under Article 58 , "counter-revolutionary activity".

During the Great Purge of 1937-1938 the Military Collegium as a ''judicial authority'' processed only "especially dangerous" cases, the majority of Article 58 cases having been processed Extrajudicially by NKVD Troika s and other organs of Soviet political repression. In particular, the Military Collegium was in charge of the major Soviet Show Trial s.