Öffentlichkeit und Rechtsprechung unter der frühen Sowjetmacht. Der Prozeß gegen den „Juznyj Rabocij" in Odessa 1918
Journal: heiDOK (Heidelberg University)
Year: 2015

The trial against the editorial stuff of the Menshevik newspaper Juzhnyi Rabochii, which took place at Odessa's tribunal at the beginning of March 1918, was one of the first political trials under the new Soviet power. The trial not only contained a lot of theatrical elements, which made it appear like a revolutionary drama and which expressed the symbolic language of the revolution. The trial also showed the important role of Odessa's tribunal as public forum, where a newly formed public, consi