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

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

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Borneman, John,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1997]
©1998
Year of Publication:1997
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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