Download or read book Justice Behind the Iron Curtain written by Gabriel N. Finder and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Justice behind the Iron Curtain, Gabriel N. Finder and Alexander V. Prusin examine Poland's role in prosecuting Nazi German criminals during the first decade and a half of the postwar era. Finder and Prusin contend that the Polish trials of Nazi war criminals were a pragmatic political response to postwar Polish society and Poles' cravings for vengeance against German Nazis. Although characterized by numerous inconsistencies, Poland's prosecutions of Nazis exhibited a fair degree of due process and resembled similar proceedings in Western democratic counties. The authors examine reactions to the trials among Poles and Jews. Although Polish-Jewish relations were uneasy in the wake of the extremely brutal German wartime occupation of Poland, postwar Polish prosecutions of German Nazis placed emphasis on the fate of Jews during the Holocaust. Justice behind the Iron Curtain is the first work to approach communist Poland's judicial postwar confrontation with the legacy of the Nazi occupation.
Download or read book Legal System and Administration of Justice behind the Iron Curtain written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Legal System and Adminstration of Justice Behind the Iron Curtain written by and published by . This book was released on 1970* with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Justice Behind the Iron Curtain written by Gabriel N. Finder and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gabriel N. Finder and Alexander V. Prusin examine Poland's role in prosecuting Nazi German criminals during the first decade and a half of the postwar era. Finder and Prusin contend that the Polish trials of Nazi war criminals were a pragmatic political response to postwar Polish society and Poles' cravings for vengeance against German Nazis. Although characterized by numerous inconsistencies, Poland's prosecutions of Nazis exhibited a fair degree of due process and resembled similar proceedings in Western democratic counties. The authors examine reactions to the trials among Poles and Jews. Although Polish-Jewish relations were uneasy in the wake of the extremely brutal German wartime occupation of Poland, postwar Polish prosecutions of German Nazis placed emphasis on the fate of Jews during the Holocaust. Justice Behind the Iron Curtain is the first work to approach communist Poland's judicial postwar confrontation with the legacy of the Nazi occupation.
Download or read book Looking at Chinese Justice written by Laurence Cecil Bartlett Gower and published by . This book was released on 196? with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Iron Curtain written by Anne Applebaum and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 803 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway. At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union to its surprise and delight found itself in control of a huge swath of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to Communism, a completely new political and moral system. In Iron Curtain, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Applebaum describes how the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe were created and what daily life was like once they were complete. She draws on newly opened East European archives, interviews, and personal accounts translated for the first time to portray in devastating detail the dilemmas faced by millions of individuals trying to adjust to a way of life that challenged their every belief and took away everything they had accumulated. Today the Soviet Bloc is a lost civilization, one whose cruelty, paranoia, bizarre morality, and strange aesthetics Applebaum captures in the electrifying pages of Iron Curtain.
Download or read book Government Law and Courts Behind the Iron Curtain written by Vladimir Gsovski and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lawyer in Communism written by Lajos Kálmán and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Imagining the World from Behind the Iron Curtain written by Malgorzata Fidelis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-10 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sixties occupy a prominent place in popular culture and scholarship as an era of global upheavals, including the Civil Rights Movement, de-colonization, radical social movements, student and youth protests, and the Vietnam War. This pioneering book explores the seemingly isolated Eastern bloc and a non-capitalist context, demonstrating the impact of those global upheavals on young people in Poland in the form of international youth culture, protest movements, and counterculture.
Download or read book West Germany and the Iron Curtain written by Astrid M. Eckert and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: West Germany and the Iron Curtain takes a fresh look at the history of the Federal Republic and the German re-unification process from the spatial perspective of the West German borderlands that emerged along the volatile inter-German border after 1945. The book is the first environmental history of the Iron Curtain.
Download or read book Guilty Before Proven Innocent written by C. W. Pickett and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's justice system is not very just. Over one-third of Americans are in the correctional system, more than any other country. Check the box that says you have a criminal record and say goodbye to a well-paying job or renting a nice house. The Mountain States, and Alaska, have the highest suicide rates in the nation - and the highest incarceration rates - in the world! Are incarceration, suicide and poverty related? By tying these three things together, we look at how families, especially women and children, are senselessly impacted by America's mass incarceration.Why bring in a case from 120 years ago? Some things never change. The final chapters tell of a man who was hanged for a murder he did not commit. From the very start, his case was controversial and pocked with assumptions. Tom Horn was "jobbed" and tricked into a drunken confession by a greedy deputy and an overzealous prosecutor. A power-hungry governor condemned him to death, and a woman was scorned for trying to help him. Many books are written about his case, but finally, after all these years, we learn the whole truth about the story of Tom Horn. Be prepared to be amazed, perhaps even a little shocked, as you read about life behind America's iron curtain called justice.
Download or read book The August Trials written by Andrew Kornbluth and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first account of the August Trials, in which postwar Poland confronted the betrayal of Jewish citizens under Nazi rule but ended up fashioning an alibi for the past. When six years of ferocious resistance to Nazi occupation came to an end in 1945, a devastated Poland could agree with its new Soviet rulers on little else beyond the need to punish German war criminals and their collaborators. Determined to root out the “many Cains among us,” as a Poznań newspaper editorial put it, Poland’s judicial reckoning spawned 32,000 trials and spanned more than a decade before being largely forgotten. Andrew Kornbluth reconstructs the story of the August Trials, long dismissed as a Stalinist travesty, and discovers that they were in fact a scrupulous search for the truth. But as the process of retribution began to unearth evidence of enthusiastic local participation in the Holocaust, the hated government, traumatized populace, and fiercely independent judiciary all struggled to salvage a purely heroic vision of the past that could unify a nation recovering from massive upheaval. The trials became the crucible in which the Communist state and an unyielding society forged a foundational myth of modern Poland but left a lasting open wound in Polish-Jewish relations. The August Trials draws striking parallels with incomplete postwar reckonings on both sides of the Iron Curtain, suggesting the extent to which ethnic cleansing and its abortive judicial accounting are part of a common European heritage. From Paris and The Hague to Warsaw and Kyiv, the law was made to serve many different purposes, even as it failed to secure the goal with which it is most closely associated: justice.
Download or read book The Orthodox Church in Ukraine written by Nicholas E. Denysenko and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-23 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bitter separation of Ukraine's Orthodox churches is a microcosm of its societal strife. From 1917 onward, church leaders failed to agree on the church's mission in the twentieth century. The core issues of dispute were establishing independence from the Russian church and adopting Ukrainian as the language of worship. Decades of polemical exchanges and public statements by leaders of the separated churches contributed to the formation of their distinct identities and sharpened the friction amongst their respective supporters. In The Orthodox Church in Ukraine, Nicholas Denysenko provides a balanced and comprehensive analysis of this history from the early twentieth century to the present. Based on extensive archival research, Denysenko's study examines the dynamics of church and state that complicate attempts to restore an authentic Ukrainian religious identity in the contemporary Orthodox churches. An enhanced understanding of these separate identities and how they were forged could prove to be an important tool for resolving contemporary religious differences and revising ecclesial policies. This important study will be of interest to historians of the church, specialists of former Soviet countries, and general readers interested in the history of the Orthodox Church.
Download or read book Christian Democracy Across the Iron Curtain written by Piotr H. Kosicki and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first scholarly exploration of how Christian Democracy kept Cold War Europe’s eastern and western halves connected after the creation of the Iron Curtain in the late 1940s. Christian Democrats led the transnational effort to rebuild the continent’s western half after World War II, but this is only one small part of the story of how the Christian Democratic political family transformed Europe and defied the nascent Cold War’s bipolar division of the world. The first section uses case studies from the origins of European integration to reimagine Christian Democracy’s long-term significance for a united Europe. The second shifts the focus to East-Central Europeans, some exiled to Western Europe, some to the USA, others remaining in the Soviet Bloc as dissidents. The transnational activism they pursued helped to ensure that, Iron Curtain or no, the boundary between Europe’s west and east remained permeable, that the Cold War would not last and that Soviet attempts to divide the continent permanently would fail. The book’s final section features the testimony of three key protagonists. This book appeals to a wide range of audiences: undergraduate and graduate students, established scholars, policymakers (in Europe and the Americas) and potentially also general readerships interested in the Cold War or in the future of Europe.
Download or read book Guilty Until Proven Innocent written by Carol Pickett and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suicide, Incarceration, and Poverty Journey behind America's Iron Curtain called JusticeAmerica incarcerates more citizens than any other country in the world. Over one-third of our citizens are under correctional control - jail, prisons, probation, or parole. Families live in poverty because the wage-earner is in prison. Nearly all incarcerated women are single mothers, in jail for either drug possession or personal issues, like domestic violence. Rarely do women commit violent crimes - unless she has had enough of her abusive mate!Why are women's incarceration rates on the rise? Why is Wyoming, the Equality State, #2 in the world for incarcerating her women? Why do Alaska, and the Mountain States, a.k.a. the Suicide Belt, have the highest incarceration and suicide rates in the nation?Parents struggle to feed their children and put a roof over their head; single moms are #1 for living in poverty. A criminal record keeps her from well-paying jobs or renting a place to live. What affect does this have on her children?Not only the guilty suffer. Innocent people, those not proven guilty of a crime, are punished as if they are criminals. It is easy to convict someone. All it takes is one overzealous prosecutor skewing the truth and presenting false witnesses, and their case is made!This journey ends with a rather famous true story of the days when cattle roamed free and lynchings of rustlers were common. By twisting and turning the truth, artfully using smoke and mirrors, political pressures from all sides, and yellow journalism, a man innocent of the crime was found guilty by a compromised jury, and sentenced to death by hanging. Unchecked practices such as these, compounded by a hundred years or more, has led us to where today the U.S. correctional system controls more people than any other country in the world!If you believe people are innocent until proven guilty; if you believe America's justice system is just; then this book is meant to change your mind.
Download or read book Behind the Iron Curtain written by Tõnu Tannberg and published by Tartu Historical Studies. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Cold War, Estonia lay behind the Iron Curtain. Even in the grip of Soviet rule, the country underwent many important developments. This volume brings together fourteen papers on the political, economic, and cultural history of Estonia during the Cold War. Their topics range from international relations and the border regime to tourism and the media. The papers are based on extensive archival research and make use of many previously unexamined documents. The resulting book offers new insights into the history of Estonia and of the Cold War on a local level.
Download or read book Student s Cold War Memoirs written by Abdul H. Akida and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of World War II in Europe (1939-1945), the three victorious allies, namely the United States of America, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union signed the Potsdam Agreement (Polish: Traktat Posdamski – German: Potsdamer Abkommen) in the month of August 1945. This followed the defeat and surrender of the German Army. 1 - The Agreement, amongst other things, dealt mainly with the military occupation and reconstruction of Germany, its demilitarization, reparations, its borders, as well as setting borders of other neighbouring countries involved in the war, including the borders of People’s Republic of Poland, USSR and Germany itself. On top of that the Agreement also dealt with the prosecution of war criminals. The treaty was signed by President Harry S. Truman, Prime Minister Clement Attlee and General Secretary Joseph V. Stalin. 2 - The three powers also jointly agreed to invite France and People’s Republic of China to participate in the Council of Foreign Ministers established and assigned with the task to oversee the Agreement.
