Communists and Their Victims : : The Quest for Justice in the Czech Republic / / Roman David.

In Communists and Their Victims, Roman David identifies and examines four classes of justice measures—retributive, reparatory, revelatory, and reconciliatory—to discover which, if any, rectified the legacy of human rights abuses committed during the communist era in the Czech Republic. Conducting in...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 26 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • List of Acronyms
  • Introduction
  • PART I Historical and Sociolegal Context
  • Chapter 1. The Communist Regime in Czechoslovakia: Were People Coerced?
  • Chapter 2. Justice After Transition: Retributive, Revelatory, Reparatory, and Reconciliatory Measures
  • PART I I Justice at the Poles of Society
  • Chapter 3. Did Justice Measures Heal Victims? Compensation, Truth, and Reconciliation in the Lives of Political Prisoners
  • Chapter 4. Did Justice Measures Transform Communists? Personal and Intergenerational Transformation
  • PART I I I Justice in a Polarized Society
  • Chapter 5. Could Justice Measures Transform the Divided Society? Experimental Evidence About Justice and Reconciliation
  • Chapter 6. Did Justice Measures Transform the Divided Society? Class and Ideological Divides
  • Conclusion: From Observations to the Transformative Theory of Justice
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments