Justice in Moscow

About the Book

This “truly important work... a book of signal significance” (The Saturday Review) “gives a vivid picture of (Soviet) courts at work, and therefore, since it is very good reporting, as sharp a picture of (Soviet) life and people... it is an entrancing book.” (The Economist)

“The most vivid reportage in years.”
—The New Statesman

Extraordinary, compelling (and) an inspired achievement,” (The London Listener) it is “the most interesting, perceptive and refreshing book by an American on life in the Soviet Union since time out of mind.” (Newsweek)

About the Author

During an exchange year at Moscow State University’s legal faculty, the author found himself almost drowned in a sea of textbook print about how the courts supposedly work. But when he went to a real court one day, an entirely different world opened to him— the world of actual Russian/Soviet life, which was largely hidden even to foreign students there.