As a lawyer, Dina Kaminskaya participated in almost all the most high-profile political trials of the 1960-1970s: she defended Vladimir Bukovsky, Yuri Galanskov, Anatoly Marchenko and many other participants in the dissident movement. The examples of judicial practice described in Kaminskaya’s memoirs - falsification of evidence, self-incrimination of defendants, perjury, pressure from the state apparatus - are well known to the modern reader; The ideas about justice, human dignity and civic responsibility embodied in her actions and words are as vanishingly rare today as they were in the late Soviet years.