In this timely book, the author investigates the aftermath of communism in Poland, Hungary, East Germany and Czechoslavakia. Each chapter centres round a legal case, highlighting the knotty moral, political and legal questions raised by the changes.
In four newly democratic countries in Eastern Europe, communism's former victims and jailers are struggling to make sense of their history - and sometimes rewrite it. In this groundbreaking, stylishly reported book, a journalist travels across the battlefields of memory and asks:...