People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky Андрей Януарьевич Вышинский Stalin's Moscow-trial prosecutor who later carried hardline Soviet diplomacy to the UN
- Ivan Alekseyevich Akulov Иван Алексеевич Акулов Founder of the Soviet Procuracy, caught between state security and socialist legality
- Ivan Terentyevich Golyakov Иван Терентьевич Голяков Chairman of the USSR Supreme Court through the Great Terror and war
- Vasily Vasilievich Ulrikh Василий Васильевич Ульрих Presiding judge of the Moscow show trials, Stalin's 'judicial guillotine'
- Evgeny Bronislavovich Pashukanis Евгений Брониславович Пашуканис The Marxist legal philosopher who argued the legal form corresponds to commodity exchange: the most radical critic of Soviet law from within
- Iona Timofeievich Nikitchenko Иона Тимофеевич Никитченко Soviet judge at the Nuremberg IMT, death-sentence arbiter of the Great Purge
- Nikolai Mikhailovich Rychkov Николай Михайлович Рычков The justice commissar without a law degree who ran Soviet courts for a decade, from the Great Terror through the war-crimes trials
- Anatoly Antonovich Volin Анатолий Антонович Волин The Supreme Court chairman who purged judges and was removed for rehabilitation measures
- Grigory Nikolayevich Safonov Григорий Николаевич Сафонов USSR Prosecutor General who served at Nuremberg and was removed for refusing to sanction Beria's arrest
- Konstantin Petrovich Gorshenin Константин Петрович Горшенин The USSR's first Prosecutor General who organized war crimes trials and handed Khrushchev the statistics of the Great Terror