This trial looked at the
assassination of Kirov and plots to kill Stalin. Grigory Zinoviev and Lev
Kamenev were the prominent defendants. Zinoviev and Kamenev made a deal with Stalin that if they
confessed he would spare their lives including their families however, Stalin
went back on his word and had them killed. Through torture, the rest defendants
confessed and were all executed in secrecy.