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