A history of political trials

Titel: A history of political trials : from Charles I to Saddam Hussein / John Laughland
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Ausgabe: 1. publ.
Veröffentlicht: Oxford : Lang, 2008
Umfang: 315 Seiten
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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mehrbändiges Werk:
The past in the present
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ISBN: 9781906165000 ; 9781906165055 ; 1906165009 ; 190616505X
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  • Acknowledgements
  • p. 11
  • Introduction
  • p. 13
  • 1
  • The Trial of Charles I and the Last Judgement
  • p. 21
  • 2
  • The Trial of Louis XVI and the Terror
  • p. 35
  • 3
  • War Guilt after World War I
  • p. 51
  • 4
  • Defeat in the Dock: the Riom Trial
  • p. 63
  • 5
  • Justice as Purge: Marshal Petain Faces his Accusers
  • p. 77
  • 6
  • Treachery on Trial: the Case of Vidkun Quisling
  • p. 91
  • 7
  • Nuremberg: Making War Illegal
  • p. 103
  • 8
  • Creating Legitimacy: the Trial of Marshal Antonescu
  • p. 119
  • 9
  • Ethnic Cleansing and National Cleansing in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1947
  • p. 129
  • 10
  • People's Justice in Liberated Hungary
  • p. 143
  • 11
  • From Mass Execution to Amnesty and Pardon: Postwar Trials in Bulgaria, Finland, and Greece
  • p. 153
  • 12
  • Politics as Conspiracy: the Tokyo Trials
  • p. 163
  • 13
  • The Greek Colonels, Emperor Bokassa, and the Argentine Generals: Transitional Justice, 1975-2007
  • p. 175
  • 14
  • Revolution Returns: the Trial of Nicolae Ceausescu
  • p. 185
  • 15
  • A State on Trial: Erich Honecker in Moabit
  • p. 195
  • 16
  • Jean Kambanda, Convicted without Trial
  • p. 207
  • 17
  • Kosovo and the New World Order: the Trial of Slobodan Milosevic
  • p. 221
  • 18
  • Regime Change and the Trial of Saddam Hussein
  • p. 237
  • Conclusion
  • p. 251
  • Notes
  • p. 259
  • Bibliography and Further Reading
  • p. 285
  • Index
  • p. 295