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Introduction Part I. The First Phase: 1. The design of an experiment 2. Criminal justice under NEP Part II. The Years of Collectivization: 3. Campaign justice 4. The decline of legality Part III. The Conservative Shift: 5. The return to tradition: Vyshinsky and legal order 6. Stalin's criminal policy: from tradition to excess 7. Criminal justice and the great terror 8. The reconstruction of criminal justice 9. Preparing for war: the criminalization of labour infractions Part IV. The Stalinist Synthesis: 10. Moulding legal officials for careers 11. The dynamics of Stalinist justice: bureaucratic and political pressures on legal officials 12. The distortion and limits of criminal policy Conclusion.
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