Stalin's Soviet Justice: 'Show' Trials, War Crimes Trials, and Nuremberg

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350196916
• ISBN13: 9781350196919
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"