Рапава, Багиров и другие. Антисталинские процессы 1950-х гг.

The book of the Honored Lawyer of Russia tells about the trials that took place after the death of I. Stalin, in which the direct perpetrators of repressions against their own people were convicted. The author, who was the secretary of the court presence at the Tbilisi trial of 1955 (A. Rapava and others) and the Baku trial of 1956 (M. Bagirov and others), using facts, shows the inhumanity of the persecution machine created by the Stalinist regime. It was used both in intra-party disassembly and for cleaning the apparatus of law enforcement agencies. But in the vast majority of cases, ordinary Soviet people - workers, engineers, collective farmers, cultural figures - became its victims. Torture, sometimes very sophisticated, is an integral part of this machine. The author shows what terrible consequences the belief in the infallibility of one person, the absence of a normally functioning legal system, and society's control over law enforcement agencies can lead to.