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Politische Justiz unter Stalin im Umbruchjahrzehnt 1928-1938
Political justice under Stalin during the decade of turmoil between 1928 and 1938
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Abstract "Courts and administrative justice were decisive instruments of Stalinist rule in the USSR. Especially during Stalin's 'Revolution from Above' in the late twenties and early thirties and in the Great Terror of 1937/38 political justice played an important role for the implementation of Stalinist pol... view more
"Courts and administrative justice were decisive instruments of Stalinist rule in the USSR. Especially during Stalin's 'Revolution from Above' in the late twenties and early thirties and in the Great Terror of 1937/38 political justice played an important role for the implementation of Stalinist politics. The special features of Stalinist political justice are its fictiousness with many thousands of falsified indictments, the staging of show trials and the coexistence of courts together with extrajudicial punishment 'by administrative means'." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
role; historical analysis; accused; secret service; law; USSR; dictatorship; contemporary history; judiciary; political lawsuit; political justice; stalinism; criminal proceedings; terrorism
Classification
Political System, Constitution, Government
General History
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Method
descriptive study; historical
Document language
German
Publication Year
2011
Page/Pages
p. 53-75
Journal
Totalitarismus und Demokratie, 8 (2011) 1
Issue topic
Der stalinistische Massenterror
ISSN
1612-9008
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications