title: On the authorship of ‘Beria’s Letters from imprisonnement’
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metadata.value: Petrov, Vadim V.
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metadata.value: Marusenko, Mikhail A.
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metadata.value: Piotrowskaya, Ksenia R.
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metadata.value: Mañas, Iban N.
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metadata.value: Mamayev, Nikita K.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2019-12-11T13:23:33Z
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metadata.value: 2019-12-11T13:23:33Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2019-09
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metadata.value: Petrov, Vadim V., Marusenko, Mikhail A., Piotrowskaya, Ksenia R., Mañas, Iban N., Mamayev, Nikita K. 2019. “On the authorship of ‘Beria’s Letters from imprisonnement’”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Law 3: 586–605.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu14.2019.313
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/16808
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metadata.value: This article analyzes historical sources devoted to the “Beria case”, in which it is suggested that
  the true version of the arrest and execution of L. P. Beria is far from the official one. They also
  give opinions that the so-called “Beria’s letters from imprisonment” are fakes created to conceal
  the truth about extrajudicial reprisal against this prominent figure of the CPSU and the
  Soviet government. The study of the materials of the investigative case and historical and literary
  sources made it possible to formulate a hypothesis that these documents were written after
  the death of L. P. Beria alone by his regular speechwriter V. N. Merkulov or a group of authors,
  which included Merkulov, also a victim of repression. To carry out an authorship examination
  of Beria’s letters to the CPSU Central Committee, a text attribution method was applied
  based on the measure Burrows’s Delta with Eder’s Delta and Cosine-Delta modifications, and
  Ward’s clustering algorithms allowed visualization of solutions in the form of dendrograms.
  As a result, it is shown that the intellectual authorship of the documents under investigation,
  which date back to the period between June 28 and July 2, 1953, belongs to speechwriters who
  previously took part in writing the texts of Beria’s public speeches, including V. N. Merkulov,
  who is very likely the main author of these texts. Merkulov, both by his own admission and
  by the confession of L. P. Beria himself, beginning in the 1930s, was the author of the texts of
  his public speeches and official documents, since Beria himself had a poor command of the
  written form of the Russian language.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Law;Volume 10; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Beria case
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Beria’s letters
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metadata.value: authorship examination
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: L. P. Beria
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: V. N. Merculov
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Burrows’s Delta
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Eder’s Delta
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Cosine-Delta
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: dendrogram
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: On the authorship of ‘Beria’s Letters from imprisonnement’
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metadata.value: Article
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