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Soviet Legal Reforms. Steps Toward Justice
Berman, Harold J. | June 30, 1956 issue

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All remaining doubts concerning the existence in the Soviet Union of a system of arbitrary arrests, extorted confessions, secret trials, political executions — in sort, a system of terror — have been entirely dispelled by the Soviet leadership itself. A large part of Sergei Khrushchev's famous "secret" speech to the Twentieth Party Congress last February consisted of detailed testimony of Joseph Stalin's systematic violations of what one would call due process of law. The question remains, however, how the post-Stalin regime proposes permanently to eliminate the "arbitrariness and lawlessness" which Khrushchev denounced.

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LAW reform; SOVIET Union -- Politics & government; POLITICAL leadership; STALIN, Joseph, 1879-1953; CONGRESSES & conventions; SOVIET Union
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