Settling accounts : violence, justice, and accountability in postsocialist Europe / John Borneman.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-185) and index.

Preface Acknowledgments Pt. 1 Framing, Comparing, Historicizing 1 Ch. 1 Framing the Rule of Law in East-Central Europe 3 Ch. 2 Comparing: Decommunization - Recommunization - Reform? 26 Ch. 3 Historicizing the Rule of Law 4 Pt. 2 Ethnography of Criminality 7 Ch. 4 The Invocation of the Rechtsstaat in East Germany: Governmental and Unification Criminality 59 Ch. 5 Accountability on Trial 80 Pt. 3 Ethnography of Vindication 97 Ch. 6 Democratic Accountability: Results, Evaluations, Ramifications 99 Ch. 7 Justice and Dignity: Victims, Vindication, and Accountability 111 Pt. 4 Legitimacy 137 Ch. 8 The Rule of Law and the State: Violence, Justice, and Legitimacy 139