Language:
English
Year of publication:
1986
Titel der Quelle:
Soviet Union - Union Soviétique
Angaben zur Quelle:
13,2 (1986) 217-232
Keywords:
Stalin, Joseph,
;
Antisemitism
Abstract:
After World War II, Stalin launched a propaganda campaign against "cosmopolitanism" to prepare the way for a wave of repression directed against the Jewish intelligentsia. From 1949, charges were leveled against legal scholars. Describes the case of Prof. Aron Naumovich Trainin of Moscow University, an expert in international criminal law and legal adviser to the Nuremberg Tribunal, who was expelled from the university and barred from the profession in February 1953. After Stalin's death he was reinstated. Other legal scholars were arrested, such as Valentin Lifschitz who was sentenced to death for allegedly plotting to kill Stalin. Although still alive at the time of Stalin's death, Lifschitz was shot so that he would not reveal the truth. The NKVD assigned the task of developing the case against the jurists to Prof. S.A. Pokrovskii who contrived the "evidence" against Lifschitz and who continued to teach, publish, and lecture after the above events.
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