Stalin's Soviet justice : "show" trials, war crimes trials, and Nuremberg

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Stalin's Soviet justice : "show" trials, war crimes trials, and Nuremberg

Title remainder

"show" trials, war crimes trials, and Nuremberg

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edited by David M. Crowe

Title variation

"Show" trials, war crimes trials, and Nuremberg

Contributor

• Crowe, David

Editor

• Crowe, David

Subject

• Criminal justice, Administration of -- Soviet Union
• International criminal law -- Soviet Union
• Law -- Soviet Union
• War crime trials -- Germany | Nuremberg -- History -- 20th century
• Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953
• Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946
• Law -- Political aspects -- Soviet Union
• War (International law) -- History -- 20th century

Language

eng

Summary

From the 'show' trials of the 1920s and 1930s to the London Conference, this book examines the Soviet role in the Nuremberg IMT trial through the prism of the ideas and practices of earlier Soviet legal history, detailing the evolution of Stalin's ideas about the trail of Nazi war criminals. Stalin believed that an international trial for Nazi war criminals was the best way to show the world the sacrifices his country had made to defeat Hitler, and he, together with his legal mouthpiece Andrei Vyshinsky, maintained tight control over Soviet representatives during talks leading up to the creation of the Nuremberg IMT trial in 1945, and the trial itself. But Soviet prosecutors at Nuremberg were unable to deal comfortably with the complexities of an open, western-style legal proceeding, which undercut their effectiveness throughout the trial. However, they were able to present a significant body of evidence that underscored the brutal nature of Hitler's racial war in Russia from 1941-45, a theme which became central to Stalin's efforts to redefine international criminal law after the war. Stalin's Soviet Justice provides a nuanced analysis of the Soviet justice system at a crucial turning point in European history and it will be vital reading for scholars and advanced students of the legal history of the Soviet Union, the history of war crimes and the aftermath of the Second World War. --

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non fiction

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