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

by John Borneman

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 collective retributive violence. In Settling Accounts, John Borneman explores the attempts by these aspiring democratic states to invoke the principles...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069101681X
• ISBN13: 9780691016818
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"