Stalin's Soviet Justice

David M. Crowe is Presidential Fellow at Chapman University, USA and Professor Emeritus of History & Law at Elon University, USA. He is the author of numerous books, including War Crimes, Genocide, and Justice: A Global History (2013), The Holocaust: Roots, History, and Aftermath (2008), and Oskar Schindler: The Untold Story of His Life, Wartime Activities, and the True Story Behind the List (2004). David M. Crowe’s books have been translated into six languages.

• Introduction, David M. Crowe (Elon University, USA)1. Late Imperial and Soviet ‘Show’ Trials, 1878-1938, David M. Crowe (Elon University, USA) 2. Traitors or War Criminals: Collaboration on Trial in Soviet Courts in the 1940s, Alexander V. Prusin (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, USA)3. 'Nikto ne zabyt': The Politicization of Soviet War Dead, Thomas Earl Porter (North Carolina A&T State University, USA)4. The Human Face of Soviet Justice: Aron Trainin and the Origins of the Soviet Doctrine of International Criminal Law, Valentyna Polunina (Heidelberg University, Germany)5. 'May Justice be Done!': The Soviet Union and the London Conference (1945), Irina Schulmeister-André (Independent Scholar, Germany)6. The Soviet Union at the Palace of Justice: Law, Intrigue, and International Rivalry in the Nuremberg Trials, Francine Hirsch (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)7. Soviet Journalists at Nuremberg: Establishing the Soviet War Narrative, Jeremy Hicks (Queen Mary University of London, UK)8. From Geneva to Nuremberg to New York: Andrei Vyshinsky, Raphaël Lemkin, and the Struggle to Outlaw Revolutionary Violence, State Terror, and Genocide, Douglas Irvin-Erickson (George Mason University, USA)Select BibliographyIndex

The volume, especially the chapters by Irina Schulmeister-André/David M. Crowe, Francine Hirsch, and Jeremy Hicks excel in highlighting these complex interdependencies between power politics, legal positions, court proceedings, and official reconstructions of the past.