Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky (Russian: Андре́й Януа́рьевич Выши́нский; Polish: Andrzej Wyszyński) (10 December [O.S. 28 November] 1883 – 22 November 1954) was a Soviet politician, jurist and diplomat. He is best known as a state prosecutor of Joseph Stalin 's Moscow Trials and in the Nuremberg trials.

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The Procurator General of the USSR (Russian: Генеральный прокурор СССР, romanized: Generalnyi prokuror SSSR) was the highest functionary of the Office of the Public Procurator of the USSR, responsible for the whole system of offices of public procurators and supervision of their activities on the territory of the Soviet ...

Andrey Vyshinsky (born November 28 [December 10, New Style], 1883, Odessa, Russia—died November 22, 1954, New York, New York, U.S.) was a Soviet statesman, diplomat, and lawyer who was the chief prosecutor during the Great Purge trials in Moscow in the 1930s.

Stalin’s Prosecutor is a biography of Vyshinsky, whose career as a Soviet official spanned from 1917’s October Revolution to a year after Stalin’s 1953 death. The title is derived from Stalin’s assignment of Vyshinsky as the chief prosecutor for what are known as the Moscow “show trials” of 1936-1938, after he had worked at ...

Prosecutors General of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Pyotr Krasikov (15 March 1924 – 20 June 1933) Ivan Akulov (20 June 1933 – 3 March 1935) Andrey Vyshinsky (3 March 1935 – 31 May 1939) Mikhail Pankratyev (31 May 1939 – 7 August 1940) …

In the political, social, and economic turmoil that characterizes the former Soviet Union, the prosecutor's office faces dramatic challenges as it tries to adjust to a new order and a society under pressure to base its criminal justice system on the rule of law recognized by the West.

Soviet Prosecutors and Police Violence in Molotov Province 741 and the regional MVD and the militsiia, I will show how Kuliapin asserted his professional claims against the militsiia and their officials. How did the Soviet procuracy fight cases of police brutality and what were the …

Mar 18, 2021 · The USSR’s most famous and honoured prosecutor, who filled that important role from the time of Stalin to almost the end of the Brezhnev era (Rudenko died in 1981, Brezhnev in 1982), was in charge of the Soviet delegation at the Nuremberg trials, when he was aged only 38.

In the political, social, and economic turmoil that characterizes the former Soviet Union, the prosecutor's office faces dramatic challenges as it tries to adjust to a new order and a society under pressure to base its criminal justice system on the rule of law recognized by the West.