Soviet politicians and criminal prosecutions

Soviet politicians and criminal prosecutions by Peter H. Solomon Download PDF EPUB FB2

Soviet Criminal Justice Under Stalin is the first comprehensive account of Stalin's struggle to make criminal law in the USSR a reliable instrument of rule, emphasizing the initial weakness of the Soviet state and the limits of Stalin's capacity to rule. Peter Solomon also offers new perspectives on collectivization, the Great Terror, the politics of abortion, and the disciplining of the labor   12Vyshinsky was the Procurator-General of the USSR, which was a post roughly comparable to the Attorney General of the U.S.

Around the time Vyshinsky was appointed the Soviet Union’s top prosecutor, the Soviet’s issued the “decree of April 7,which rendered children of twelve and over subject to “all measures of criminal '   McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.

The term refers to U.S. senator Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisconsin) and has its origins in the period in the United States known as the Second Red Scare, lasting from the late s through the s.

It was characterized by heightened political repression and a campaign spreading fear of   Victor's justice is a pejorative term referring to the unjust prosecution of the defeated party's acts in a conflict by the victorious party.

Victor's justice generally involves excessive or unjustified punishment of defeated parties and light punishment or clemency for offenses committed by victors. Opponents argue that the difference in rules amounts to hypocrisy and revenge under the guise 's_justice.

overzealous prosecutions of unpopular groups,;7 conflicts of interest with campaign donations by corporations under criminal investigation,8 and the problem of unitary political control over U.S. Attorneys (see, e.g., former U.S. Attorney Chris Christie and the fired U.S. Attorneys in the Bush administration in ).9 Soviet politicians and criminal prosecutions: the logic of party intervention Peter H.

Solomon Soviet interview project, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Working paper / Soviet interview project, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 33   Senator Joseph McCarthy's Charges 'now accepted as Fact' By Jon Basil Utley.

WASHINGTON, February 8, — Although Joseph McCarthy was one of the most demonized American politicians of the last century, new information—including half-century-old FBI recordings of Soviet embassy conversations—are showing that McCarthy was right in nearly all his World Socialist Web Site they later became prominent scientists, business figures and politicians.

For example, Ljenko Urbancic, a Slovenian Nazi collaborator, was protected by the British "In Far from the Tree, Andrew Solomon reminds us that nothing is more powerful in a child's development than the love of a parent.

This remarkable new book introduces us to mothers and fathers across America - many in circumstances the rest of us can hardly imagine - who are making their children feel special, no matter what challenges come Book Review of Bruce Hoffman’s “Inside Terrorism” (Columbia University Press, )The author, Bruce Hoffman, was for a long time a director at RAND Corporation in Washington, which he.