Publishers Weekly, December 21st, 1990
THE PROSECUTOR: Andrei Vyshinsky and the Moscow Show Trials
Arkady Vaksberg, translated by Jan Butler. Grove Weidenfeld, ISBN 0-8021-1333-8 Chief prosecutor in the murderous Moscow show trials of the 1930s, mild-mannered, cunning Andrei Vyshinsky matched his boss, Josef Stalin, in his lust for power, insatiable vanity and fear for his own safety. Slavishly obsequious to his master, Vyshinsky was a first-rate actor and virtuoso stage-manager who orchestrated countless "confessions" from innocent victims. Bolsheviks, eniment doctors...
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