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The Moscow Show Trials 1936-38
- First Show Trial: August 1936
- Zinoviev, Kamenev and 14 others put on trial for
complicity with Trotsky to kill Stalin
- 14 confessed including Kamenev and
Zinoviev under torture
- All 14 shot dead
- All 14 shot dead
- Lead to further accusations of : Bukharin,
Rykov, Tomsk and Piaeakov
- Zinoviev, Kamenev and 14 others put on trial for
complicity with Trotsky to kill Stalin
- Second Show Trial: January 1937
- Piaeakov shot after pleading guilty
- Few more sent to jail
or shot
- Ordzhonokidze ( Commissar for heavy
industries in 5-year plans) was said to
have a heart attack but killed instead
- Piaeakov shot after pleading guilty
- Third Show Trial: March 1938
- Accused included Bukharin, Yagoda and Rykov
- Tomsky committed suicide when linked to trial
- Accused included Bukharin, Yagoda and Rykov
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