Alter Lvovich Tsypkin (; 16 February 1891 – 5 March 1985) was a Soviet legal scholar, lawyer,

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, professor and founder of the Department of Criminal Procedure Law of

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. In 1947 during the

anti-cosmopolitan campaign The anti-cosmopolitan campaign (russian: Борьба с космополитизмом, ) was a thinly disguised antisemitic campaign in the Soviet Union which began in late 1948. Jews were characterized as rootless cosmopolitans and were target ...

he was accused by the leadership of the academy of admiration for the "bourgeois West" for publishing his fundamental research (). The work itself was banned in the Soviet Union.

Biography

Alter Tsypkin was born on 16 February 1891 in Poltava, Russian Empire, into a Jewish family. In 1922 he graduated from the law faculty of the . From 1922 to 1948 he worked as a lawyer at the

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Bar Association. In 1931 he was accepted as a lecturer at

. From 1931 to 1980 he held the positions of professor, head of the department of criminal procedure, professor-consultant. In 1938 he defended his Ph.D. thesis on the topic: "Judicial interrogation in the Soviet criminal process." In 1939 he received the academic title of Associate Professor. On May 13, 1955, he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic: "The constitutional right to defense in the Soviet criminal process." In 1956 he received the academic title of professor. Tsypkin published more than 100 scientific papers. 12 PhD theses and one doctoral dissertation were defended under his supervision. For 13 years he was elected a deputy of the district and city Councils of Working People's Deputies in the city of Saratov. On 15 September 1961 he was awarded the

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by the Decree of the

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. He died on 5 March 1985 in Saratov, Soviet Union.

References

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