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Settling Accounts : Violence, Justice, and Accountability in Postsocialist Europe /

As new states in the former East bloc begin to reckon with their criminal pasts in the years following a revolutionary change of regimes, a basic pattern emerges: In those states where some form of retributive justice has been publicly enacted, there has generally been much less of a recourse to col...

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Autor principal: Borneman, John, 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1997.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part One: Framing, Comparing, Historicizing
  • Chapter 1. Framing the Rule of Lawin East-Central Europe
  • Chapter 2. Comparing: Decommunization--Recommunization--Reform?
  • Chapter 3. Historicizing the Rule of Law
  • Part Two: Ethnography Of Criminality
  • Chapter 4. The Invocation of the Rechtsstaat in East Germany: Governmental and Unification Criminality
  • Chapter 5. Accountability on Trial
  • Part Three: Ethnography of Vindication
  • Chapter 6. Democratic Accountability: Results, Evaluations, Ramifications
  • Chapter 7. Justice and Dignity: Victims, Vindication, and Accountability
  • Part Four: Legitimacy
  • Chapter 8. The Rule of Law and the State: Violence, Justice, and Legitimacy
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Name Index.