1. The Second Show Trial 1937
• The Trial of the 17
• Principal defendants Pyatakov and Radek
• Most of the remainder had backed Trotsky against Stalin
• They were accused of working with Trotsky to wreck the
Soviet Union and restore capitalism in Russia
• Thirteen executed the day of their conviction
• The other four given lengthy prison sentences after
‘implicating’ others in the ‘conspiracy’
• Radek died two years later in a Gulag
