Andrei Vyshinsky

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Soviet politician diplomat human lawyer

Andrei Vyshinsky was a Soviet politician and chief prosecutor notorious for his leading role in Stalin’s show trials and for popularizing harsh, ideologically driven legal practices in the USSR.

Observed surface forms (3)

Surface form As subject As object
Andrey Vyshinsky 0 1
Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky 0 1
Vyshinsky 0 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Soviet politician →
diplomat →
human →
lawyer →
awardReceived Order of Lenin →
Order of the Red Banner of Labour →
causeOfDeath heart attack →
countryOfCitizenship Russian Empire →
Soviet Union →
dateOfBirth 1883-12-10 →
dateOfDeath 1954-11-22 →
educatedAt Imperial University of Saint Vladimir →
surface form: Kiev University of Saint Vladimir

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv →
surface form: Kyiv University
familyName Andrei Vyshinsky self-linksurface differs →
surface form: Vyshinsky
fieldOfWork Soviet law →
criminal law →
international relations →
fullName Andrei Vyshinsky self-linksurface differs →
surface form: Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky
givenName Andrey NERFINISHED →
ideology Marxism–Leninism →
Stalin era →
surface form: Stalinism
languageOfWorkOrName Russian →
memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union →
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party →
movement Soviet legal positivism →
nativeLanguage Russian →
notableFor development of Soviet legal theory →
leading role in Stalinist show trials →
notableWork The Law of the Soviet State →
occupation diplomat →
jurist →
politician →
prosecutor →
participantIn Great Purge →
Moscow Trials →
placeOfBirth Odessa NERFINISHED →
Russian Empire →
placeOfDeath New York City →
United States of America →
positionHeld Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union →
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union →
Permanent Representative of the Soviet Union to the United Nations →
Prosecutor General of the Soviet Union →
surface form: Procurator General of the USSR

Prosecutor General of the Soviet Union →
Rector of Moscow State University →
religion atheism →
represented Soviet Union →
surface form: Soviet Union at the United Nations
sexOrGender male →
workLocation Moscow →
New York City →

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Andrei Vyshinsky → familyName → Andrei Vyshinsky self-linksurface differs →
this entity surface form: Vyshinsky
Andrei Vyshinsky → fullName → Andrei Vyshinsky self-linksurface differs →
this entity surface form: Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky
Trial of the Sixteen → prosecutedBy → Andrei Vyshinsky →
Trial of the Twenty-One → prosecutor → Andrei Vyshinsky →
this entity surface form: Andrey Vyshinsky