What is it about?
This article analyses the 1936' Semenchuk case and applies the theory of legal narratives to it in order to single out characteristic features of Soviet legal narrative.
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Why is it important?
This article utilises a rare primary source (the case transcript), which makes the perspective expressed in it unique in its depth. Moreover, it applies an unusual method not seen in most scholarship on Soviet legal history.
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I am very grateful to everyone who supported me throughout writing this paper. It is my first publication and I am extremely proud and open to new research in this area.
Miss Anna Lukina
University of Oxford
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This page is a summary of: The Semenchuk Case of 1936: Storytelling and Propaganda above the Law in the Soviet Criminal Trial, Review of Central and East European Law, September 2016, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/15730352-04102001.
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