Citizendia
Your Ad Here

Vasiliy Vasilievich Ulrikh (July 13, 1889 – May 7, 1951) was a senior judge of the Soviet Union during most of the regime of Joseph Stalin. Events 1174 - William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173-1174, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Year 1889 ( MDCCCLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 558 - In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses Year 1951 ( MCMLI) was a Common year starting on Monday. Events of 1951 January The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 Joseph Stalin ( ნამდვილი გვარი ჯუღაშვილი|Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili; March 5 1953 was General Secretary of the Communist Party In this capacity, Ulrikh served as the presiding judge at many of the major show trials of the Great Purges in the Soviet Union. The term show trial is a pejorative description of a type of highly Public trial. Great Purge (Большая чистка transliterated Bolshaya chistka) was a series of campaigns of Political repression and Persecution The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991

Contents

Early life

Vasili Ulrikh was born in Riga, Latvia, then a part of the Russian Empire. Riga (Rīga riːga) the Capital of Latvia, is situated on the Baltic Sea coast on the mouth of the river Daugava. Latvia ( Latvija officially the Republic of Latvia (Latvijas Republika is a Country in Northern Europe in the Baltic region. The Russian Empire ( Pre-reform Russian: Pоссійская Имперія Modern Russian: Российская Империя translit: Rossiyskaya His father was a Latvian revolutionary of German descent, and his mother was a Russian noblewoman. Because of their open involvement in revolutionary activity, the entire family was sentenced to a five-year period of internal exile in Irkutsk, Siberia. Exile means to be away from one's home (ie city state or country while either being explicitly refused permission to return and/or being threatened by prison or death upon return Irkutsk (Ирку́тск Эрхүү Erkhüü; Эрхүү Erkhüü) is one of the largest cities in Siberia and the administrative center of

In 1910 young Ulrikh returned to his native Riga and entered a course of study at the Riga Polytechnical Institute. He graduated in 1914, and with the beginning of World War I he was sent to the front as an officer. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All

After the Bolshevik Revolution, Leon Trotsky secured him entrance into the Cheka. Leon Trotsky ( Russian:, Lev Davidovich Trotsky, also transliterated Leo, Lyev, Trotskii, Trotski, Trotskij The Cheka ( ЧК - чрезвычайная комиссия Chrezvychaynaya Komissiya,) was the first of a succession of Soviet State security Ulrikh subsequently served on a number of military tribunals, and came to the attention of Stalin, who apparently liked the efficient way in which he carried out his duties and his terse, even laconic style of reporting these tribunals' actions.

Career

In 1926 Ulrikh became Chairman of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR. Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR (Военная коллегия Верховного суда СССР was created in 1924 to the Supreme Court of the USSR It was in this capacity that he handed down the pre-determined sentences of the Great Purges. Great Purge (Большая чистка transliterated Bolshaya chistka) was a series of campaigns of Political repression and Persecution Ulrikh sentenced Zinoviev, Kamenev, Bukharin, Tukhachevsky and many others. Gregory Yevseevich Zinoviev (Григо́рий Евс́еевич Зин́овьев alternative transliteration Grigorii Ovseyevish Zinoviev born Ovsei-Gershon Aronovich ( Russian: Лев Борисович Каменев born Rosenfeld, Розенфельд ( – August 25, 1936) was a Bolshevik Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (Никола́й Ива́нович Буха́рин ( &ndash March 15, 1938) was a Bolshevik Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky (Михаи́л Никола́евич Тухаче́вский Michał Tuchaczewski ( &ndash June 12, 1937) was a He attended the executions of many of these men, and occasionally performed executions himself.

During the Great Patriotic War, Ulrikh continued to hand down death sentences to people accused of sabotage and defeatism. The term Great Patriotic War (Великая Отечественная война Velikaya Otechestvennaya Vojna) is used in Russia and some other Sabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy oppressor or employer through subversion obstruction disruption and/or destruction He was also the main judge during the Trial of the Sixteen leaders of the Polish Secret State and Armia Krajowa in 1945, and Estonian Separatists. The Trial of the Sixteen (Proces szesnastu was a Staged trial of 16 leaders of the Polish Secret State held by the Soviet Union in Moscow in Polish Underground State (Polskie Państwo Podziemne also known as Polish Secret State) refers to all underground resistance organizations in Poland during Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar

After the conclusion of the war, Ulrikh presided over a number of the early trials of the Zhdanovshchina. The Zhdanov Doctrine (also called zhdanovism or zhdanovschina, Russian: доктрина Жданова ждановизм ждановщина was a In 1948 he made the mistake of exiling to Siberia a group of Ukrainian peasants instead of sentencing them to death. Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Stalin demanded his resignation, and he was subsequently reassigned to be the course director at the Military Law Academy. Red Army Military Law Academy (later Soviet Army Military Law Academy) (Военно-юридическая академия Красной Армии (Совеской Армии He died of a heart attack on May 7, 1951 and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow. Myocardial infarction ( MI or AMI for acute myocardial infarction) also known as a heart attack, occurs when the blood supply Year 1951 ( MCMLI) was a Common year starting on Monday. Events of 1951 January Novodevichy Cemetery (Новоде́вичье кла́дбище Novodevichye kladbishche is the most famous cemetery in Moscow, Russia, situated next to the Moscow (Москва́ romanised: Moskvá, IPA: see also other names) is the Capital and the largest city of

His legacy

When gauging the reputation of Vasily Ulrikh as a judge and man of law, it is necessary to look at Soviet legal philosophy. A judge, or justice, is an Official who presides over a Court of law In contrast to some countries that ask a judge to serve as the finder of fact and the defender of an objective process, Soviet criminal law authorized the police to serve as the finders of fact, and laid upon the judge the duty of serving as the facilitator of a verdict that could have been based upon facts that had already been discovered before the trial.

The judge was willing to preside over secret trials, and was able to render verdicts based on sealed evidence. A secret trial is a trial that is not open to the public, nor reported in the news The priority he placed upon time management and efficiency made it possible for him to conduct an entire trial, including the verdict, in fifteen minutes; and he frequently utilized this ability. Ulrikh's reputation has come under severe attack from his own countrymen. Anton Antonov-Ovseenko, for example, labeled him a "uniformed toad with watery eyes. Anton Vladimirovich Antonov-Ovseenko (Антон Владимирович Антонов-Овсеенко (born 1920 is Russian historian and writer " [1]

References

Notes

  1. ^ Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko, "The Time of Stalin: Portrait of a Tyranny" (New York City, N. Dr George Robert Ackworth Conquest (born July 15 1917) British Historian, became a well known writer and researcher on the Soviet Union The Great Terror is a book by Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn ( Алекса́ндр Иса́евич Солжени́цын) (December 11 1918 – August 3 2008 was a Russian Novelist The Gulag Archipelago ( Архипелаг ГУЛАГ) is a book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn based on the Soviet forced labor and concentration camp system Dmitri Antonovich Volkogonov ( Дмитрий Антонович Волкогонов in Russian) ( 22 March 1928, Chita – 6 Y. : Harper Colophon, 1983), page 83.
© 2009 citizendia.org; parts available under the terms of GNU Free Documentation License, from http://en.wikipedia.org
 Dapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic