Industrial Party Trial
The Industrial Party Trial (November 25 – December 7, 1930) (Russian: Процесс Промпартии, lit. 'Trial of the Prompartiya') was a show trial in which several Soviet scientists and economists were accused and convicted of plotting a coup against the government of the Soviet Union. Nikolai Krylenko, deputy People's Commissar (minister) of Justice, assistant Prosecutor General of the RSFSR and a prominent Bolshevik, prosecuted the case.