The volume, especially the chapters by Irina Schulmeister-André/David M. Crowe, Francine Hirsch, and Jeremy Hicks excel in highlighting these complex interdependencies between power politics, legal positions, court proceedings, and official reconstructions of the past. * H-Russia * [ It] rightfully re-orients the Soviet legal system and its leading minds into the center of the creation of post-World War II international law. * EuropeNow * This is no dry account of disputes over points of law; here, we learn of the conflicts, disappointments, and victories of real people that takes us beyond the stereotypes of the lawyers as puppets of the Kremlin or journalists churning out propaganda. The result is an intellectually-satisfying account both of the familiar story of the failed attempt of the USSR to use the Nuremburg trials to control the narrative of its role in the Second World War and of the lasting contribution that Soviet legal scholarship made to the development of international law. * Prof Judith Pallot, University of Oxford, UK * Stalins Soviet Justice makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the theory and practice of criminal justice and political repression in the USSR, shedding valuable light on the important Soviet contributions to the development of international criminal law and legal institutions after World War II. * Prof Jonathan Daly, University of Illinois, USA *