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Pēteris Ivanovich Stučka Пётр Иванович Стучка Architect of Soviet Marxist legal theory who defined law as class relations Law and justice · Soviet Union 1865–1932
Alexander Nikolayevich Vinokurov Александр Николаевич Винокуров The Bolshevik physician who built the USSR Supreme Court and led it for fourteen years Law and justice · Soviet Union 1869–1944
Nikolai Dmitrievich Sokolov Николай Дмитриевич Соколов Secretary of the Petrograd Soviet Executive Committee and the lawyer who drafted Order No. 1 Law and justice 1870–1928
Pyotr Ananyevich Krasikov Пётр Ананьевич Красиков First Procurator General of the USSR and architect of revolutionary legality Law and justice · Soviet Union 1870–1939
Aron Aleksandrovich Solts Арон Александрович Сольц The Bolshevik elder called 'conscience of the party': jurist who confronted the Prosecutor General during the Great Terror Law and justice · Soviet Union 1872–1945
Dmitry Ivanovich Kursky Дмитрий Иванович Курский Architect of revolutionary legality and the first Soviet People's Commissar of Justice and Prosecutor General Law and justice · Soviet Union 1874–1932
Nikolai Mikhailovich Yanson Николай Михайлович Янсон Estonian Bolshevik and Soviet People's Commissar of Justice who helped design the Gulag camp system Law and justice · Soviet Union 1882–1938
Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky Андрей Януарьевич Вышинский Stalin's Moscow-trial prosecutor who later carried hardline Soviet diplomacy to the UN Law and justice · Soviet Union 1883–1954
Vladimir Pavlovich Antonov-Saratovsky Владимир Павлович Антонов-Саратовский Bolshevik jurist who joined the party in 1902 and became an architect of Soviet legislation Law and justice · Soviet Union 1884–1965
Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko Николай Васильевич Крыленко Architect of revolutionary legal consciousness, consumed by the Great Terror Law and justice · Soviet Union 1885–1938
Georgy Ippolitovich Lomov Георгий Ипполитович Оппоков First People's Commissar for Justice, Gosplan deputy chairman, and victim of the Great Purge Economy, finance and planning · Soviet Union 1888–1937
Ivan Alekseyevich Akulov Иван Алексеевич Акулов Founder of the Soviet Procuracy, caught between state security and socialist legality Law and justice · Soviet Union 1888–1937
Isaac Zakharyevich Steinberg Исаак Захарович Штейнберг First People's Commissar of Justice under Lenin: the Left SR who defended revolutionary legality against the Cheka Political and party leadership · Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries 1888–1957
Ivan Terentyevich Golyakov Иван Терентьевич Голяков Chairman of the USSR Supreme Court through the Great Terror and war Law and justice · Soviet Union 1888–1961
Vasily Vasilievich Ulrikh Василий Васильевич Ульрих Presiding judge of the Moscow show trials, Stalin's 'judicial guillotine' Law and justice · Soviet Union 1889–1951
Nikolai Vasilyevich Ustryalov Николай Васильевич Устрялов Founder of National Bolshevism, the exile who saw the Bolsheviks turning into Russian state-builders Law and justice · Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) 1890–1937
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 Law and justice · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1891–1937
Yevgeny Alexandrovich Korovin Евгений Александрович Коровин Founder of Soviet international law theory who conceptualized a distinct international law for the transitional period Law and justice 1892–1964
Iona Timofeievich Nikitchenko Иона Тимофеевич Никитченко Soviet judge at the Nuremberg IMT, death-sentence arbiter of the Great Purge Law and justice · Soviet Union 1895–1967
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 Law and justice · Soviet Union 1897–1959
Alexander Fyodorovich Gorkin Александр Фёдорович Горкин The Supreme Court chairman of rehabilitation who survived Orenburg Law and justice · Soviet Union 1897–1988
Anatoly Antonovich Volin Анатолий Антонович Волин The Supreme Court chairman who purged judges and was removed for rehabilitation measures Law and justice · Soviet Union 1903–2007
Grigory Nikolayevich Safonov Григорий Николаевич Сафонов USSR Prosecutor General who served at Nuremberg and was removed for refusing to sanction Beria's arrest Law and justice · Soviet Union 1904–1972
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 Law and justice · Soviet Union 1907–1978
Roman Andreyevich Rudenko Роман Андреевич Руденко Chief Soviet prosecutor at Nuremberg, the longest-serving head of the Soviet procuracy Law and justice · Soviet Union 1907–1981
Lev Nikolayevich Smirnov Лев Николаевич Смирнов From Nuremberg assistant prosecutor to chief justice of the USSR, the Supreme Court chairman who presided over political trials Law and justice · Soviet Union 1911–1986
Alexander Mikhailovich Rekunkov Александр Михайлович Рекунков Soviet Procurator General who served from Brezhnev to Gorbachev and personally delivered Sakharov's exile decree Law and justice · Soviet Union 1920–1996
Alexander Yakovlevich Sukharev Александр Яковлевич Сухарев The last reform-era Procurator General of the USSR, who oversaw the legal rehabilitation of Stalin's victims during perestroika Law and justice · Soviet Union 1923–2021
Anatoly Ivanovich Lukyanov Анатолий Иванович Лукьянов Gorbachev's classmate turned critic: the last speaker of the Soviet parliament Law and justice · Soviet Union 1930–2019
Alexander Filippovich Katusev Александр Филиппович Катусев The Deputy Prosecutor General whose TV broadcast lit the fuse of the Sumgait pogrom Law and justice · Soviet Union 1939–2000
Alexei Ivanovich Kazannik Алексей Иванович Казанник The law professor who surrendered his Supreme Soviet seat to Yeltsin in a moment that captivated the nation Law and justice 1941–2019
Pang Hak-se Пан Хак Се Founder of North Korea's state security and enforcer of its political repression Security, intelligence and policing · Democratic People’s Republic of Korea ?–1992