Performing Justice
Subtitle: Agitation Trials In Early Soviet Russia
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: May 26, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780801442575
Subjects: European history: from c 1900 -; Trials (Political crimes and o; History: World; History; History - General History; Russia; Trials (Political crimes and offenses); Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Legal History; Soviet Union; Trials in literature
First sentence: In 1918 Vladimir Ilich Lenin, the first head of the Soviet government, commented in his notes to himself: "The role of the court = terror + socialization."