Soviet Union: Crime and Punishment in Soviet Union: Soviet Ministry of Justice Campaign to Propagate Knowledge of the Law

A file of correspondence and reports concerning crime in the Soviet Union. The documents cover a new Soviet campaign designed to propagate knowledge of the law; lectures delivered at Soviet institutions on socialist legislation and the role of the Ministry of Justice in strengthening law and order; and a lecture at the London School of Economics, delivered by a Soviet dissident now living in Israel, on how to use Soviet law to defend one's human rights. The file also covers a war crimes trial that passed death sentences on two defendants who had already served ten years in jail; reports of an attempted airplane hijacking in Turkestan; and the passing of death sentences for economic crimes, with one defendant sentenced after making illegal sales of material to a collective farm.