High-profile cases. Crimes and punishments in the USSR
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High-profile cases. Crimes and punishments in the USSR
9.99 €
7.99 €
A book about the most high-profile criminal cases of the Soviet era. Many materials have not been published before and were first released from the archives to the author personally. Thanks to access to these documents and communication with eyewitnesses, Eva Merkacheva managed to reconstruct the pictures of the trials of the last executed in the USSR - the maniac Fisher, the only child Arkady Neiland shot in the Soviet era, the executioner Antonina Makarova nicknamed Tonka-gunner, Bertha Borodkina, who set the tables for Leonid Brezhnev himself - the only one sentenced to capital punishment under the economic article. It is not only interesting and informative to throw a bridge to the past, but also useful to realize the processes that take place in judicial practice today. Each chapter is accompanied by archival illustrations from criminal cases and court records - they give the reader the opportunity to immerse themselves in the atmosphere of the events described and see with their own eyes authentic interrogation reports, handwritten verdicts, certificates of execution, and how the volumes of cases, victims, perpetrators, and crime scenes looked like. The book concludes with the only pre-Soviet case of the "queen of the thieves' world," Sonya Zolotoy Ruchka, which began the author's interest in the subject of judicial investigations.
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