Mikhail Shaevich Stern (Russian: Михаил Шаевич Штерн, 1918 – 17 June 2005) was a Soviet endocrinologist, sexologist and dissident.

[3][2] The transcript revealed various inconsistencies between witness accounts recorded behind closed doors and in the open trial, implying that the case was fabricated.

[4] In 1977, an international tribunal was organized in Stern's defense in Amsterdam, which was attended by Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre.

Stern's medical files were confiscated during his trial, and therefore the book is mostly written from memory, supported by photographs and personal letters.

(1994), a comical domestic helper named Lallu Prasad (Laxmikant Berde) is briefly seen holding a copy of The USSR Versus Dr Mikhail Stern upside down and rambling from it.