A critical analysis of the scientific and popular science publication of the honorary professor of Irkutsk State University V. V. Bronstein. The methodology of work is analyzed. Features of the selection of a database of scientific sources and empirical material, including archival documents, formulation of a scientific problem, features of argumentation within the framework of the narrative. A detailed analysis of the organization of the state apparatus, including law enforcement agencies, is assessed as positive. The position of the author of the monograph regarding the peculiarities of Soviet legislation is supported, and a deep study of issues of political repression is noted. Attention is paid to other state and legal features of the work. The opinion of the author of the monograph regarding the fictitious nature of the trial of Marshal Beria is critically assessed. At the same time, it is recognized that the totality of the facts shows the presence of serious violations of procedural legislation during the trial of L. P. Beria.

Soviet legislation, law enforcement agencies, political repressions, forced deportation, organization of public administration, Soviet state building

Tirskikh Maksim Gennadievich – Candidate of Juridical Sciences, Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of International Law and Comparative Law, Law Institute, Irkutsk State University (1, K. Marx st., Irkutsk, 664003, Russian Federation), ORCID: 0000-0003-2434-6324, ResearcherID: G-5674-2018, RSCI AuthorID: 451123, e-mail: tirskm@mail.ru

Tirskikh M. G. Legal labyrinths of fatal processes (Review of V. V. Bronshtein’s monograph “political technologies of the steel age. Marshal Beria and politicrucian Khrushchev”) [Pravovye labirinty sud'bonosnyh processov (recenziya na monografiyu V. V. Bronshtejna «politicheskie tekhnologii stal'noj epohi. Marshal Beriya i politruk Hrushchev»)] Sibirskij yuridicheskij vestnik [Siberian Law Herald]. 2024, no 1(104), pp. 134–139. – DOI 10.26516/2071-8136.2024.1.134 (in Russian)

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