Lev Sheinin

Lev Romanovich Sheinin (1906–1967)[1] was a Soviet writer, journalist, and NKVD investigator.[2] He was Andrei Vyshinsky's chief investigator during the show trials of the 1930s,[3][4] and a member of the Soviet team at the Nuremberg trials.[5] In the 1930s he collaborated with psychologist Alexander Luria in researching the emotional reactions of suspected criminals, work that contributed to the development of polygraph testing.[6] In 1951 he was arrested on suspicion of spying, one of the arrests associated with the Doctors' plot.[7]

He wrote Diary of a Criminologist (1945), one of the first Soviet detective novels, along with many other novels, plays, and short stories. His obituary in the New York Times reported that his plays were produced throughout the Eastern Bloc and Diary of a Criminologist was "considered essential reading for law students."[8] He was a member of the Union of Soviet Writers.[2] He died in 1967 at the age of 61.[8]

References
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  2. Fitzpatrick, Sheila (5 July 2005). Tear off the Masks!: Identity and Imposture in Twentieth-Century Russia. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9781400843732.
  3. Fitzpatrick, Sheila. On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics. United Kingdom, Princeton University Press, 2017. Page 242
  4. Fitzpatrick, Sheila (4 March 1999). Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-983924-7.
  5. Hirsch, Francine. “The Soviets at Nuremberg: International Law, Propaganda, and the Making of the Postwar Order.” The American Historical Review, vol. 113, no. 3, 2008, pp. 701–30. Accessed 5 Sep. 2022.
  6. Yasnitsky, Anton. "Vygotsky circle as a personal network of scholars: restoring connections between people and ideas." Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, vol. 45, no. 4, Dec. 2011, pp. 422+. Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A383176152/HRCA?u=googlescholar&sid=googleScholar&xid=7664bf68. Accessed 5 Sept. 2022.
  7. Brackman, Roman (23 November 2004). The Secret File of Joseph Stalin: A Hidden Life. Routledge. ISBN 9781135758400.
  8. "Lev Sheinin, Soviet Writer Of Detective Novels, Dies". The New York Times. May 12, 1967.
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