Settling accounts : violence, justice, and accountability in postsocialist Europe /
John Borneman.
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1997.
- xii, 197 p. ; 24 cm.
- Princeton studies in culture/power/history .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pt. 1. Framing, Comparing, Historicizing. Ch. 1. Framing the Rule of Law in East-Central Europe. Ch. 2. Comparing: Decommunization - Recommunization - Reform? Ch. 3. Historicizing the Rule of Law -- Pt. 2. Ethnography of Criminality. Ch. 4. The Invocation of the Rechtsstaat in East Germany: Governmental and Unification Criminality. Ch. 5. Accountability on Trial -- Pt. 3. Ethnography of Vindication. Ch. 6. Democratic Accountability: Results, Evaluations, Ramifications. Ch. 7. Justice and Dignity: Victims, Vindication, and Accountability -- Pt. 4. Legitimacy. Ch. 8. The Rule of Law and the State: Violence, Justice, and Legitimacy.
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Postcommunism--Europe Eastern Rule of law--Europe Eastern Reparation Criminal justice--Europe Eastern Political crimes and offenses--Europe Eastern Retribution Social justice--Europe Eastern
Europe Eastern--Social policy Europe Eastern--Politics and government--1989