Critique internationale
Presses de Sc. Po.

I.S.B.N.9782724630947
210 pages

p. 85 à 101
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n° 36 2007/3

Un procès du Goulag au temps du Goulag ?

L’affaire Kravchenko (1949)

Liora Israël
The Kravchenko case today can be seen as an essential phase in the denunciation of Soviet regime crimes. This article reviews the details of the 1949 trial that opposed Kravchenko, a Ukrainian renegade, and the Communist weekly Les Lettres françaises that had launched a vilification campaign against him. The legal specificities of the charge of slander as well as the framework of a Paris criminal court in 1949 imposed particular constraints on the adversaries, whose respective goals – far over and above slander – was a denunciation of Soviet crimes and a condemnation of anti-Sovietism. Lawyers played a decisive role in the interweaving of arguments capable of supporting these opposing viewpoints at the height of the Cold War. This trial, of which the political and ideological stakes were instantly clear to the protagonists of the time, is an atypical and fascinating example of the complex relations that can be woven between justice and severe crises.
• Un simple procès en diffamation ? Des contraintes juridiques restrictives
— Qui accusait qui ? Et de quoi ?
— Une stratégie judiciaire orientée par la diffamation
• La construction du procès
— Anticipations et stratégies de présentation des parties : le rôle des témoins
— La construction d’argumentaires utilisables lors du procès
— Mises en équivalence et construction narrative dans le procès


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