ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book addresses law and the dispensation of justice within the broader context of Stalinist justice in Central and Eastern Europe. It introduces key criminal legal provisions and characteristics of Stalinist rule by looking at the writings of Andrei Vyshinsky and Leon Petrazycki, and addresses the example of the 1949 Rajk trial. The book then discusses visual law in Soviet Russia, namely the advancement of legal propaganda from staged trials to photography and addresses visual law in Albania. It also examines the vital role that legal photography and legal photojournalism played in the administration of law. The book discusses a specific war crimes trial, that of Albert Forster, held before the Polish Supreme National Tribunal and one of the prosecutors, Mieczyslaw Siewierski.
