Political Justice in Budapest After World War II

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-963-386-052-6
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 136 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 359 g

In Hungary, which fell under Soviet influence at the end of World War II, those who had participated in the wartime atrocities were tried by so called people’s courts. This book analyses this process in an objective, quantitative way, contributing to the present timely discussion on the Hungarian war guilt. The authors apply a special focus on the gender aspect of the trials.

Political justice had a specific nature in Hungary. War criminals began to be brought to trial while fighting was still underway in the western part of the country, well before the Nuremberg trials. Not only crimes committed during the war were tried in the same frame but also post-war ones. As far as the post-war period is concerned, legal proceedings regarding these crimes were most often launched on the basis of Act VII of 1946. This act of law concerned “the criminal law protection of the democratic constitutional order and the republic” and its basic aim was to facilitate the creation of a communist dictatorship and to deal with perceived or real enemies of the regime.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Peto, Andrea

Barna, Ildikó

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Politische Unterdrückung & Verfolgung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Totalitarismus & Diktaturen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

LIST OF FIGURES, FOREWORD, POLITICAL JUSTICE IN EUROPE: THE STATE OF RESEARCH, LEGAL BACKGROUND TO THE PEOPLE'S TRIBUNALS AND THEIR OPERATION IN HUNGARY, RESEARCH METHODOLOGY, ANALYSIS OF THE PEOPLE'S TRIBUNAL CASES, A GENDERED ANALYSIS OF POLITICAL JUSTICE IN HUNGARY IN THE AFTERMATH OF WORLD WAR II, JEWISH IDENTITY AND THE PEOPLE'S TRIBUNALS, SUMMARY, BIBLIOGRAPHY

Über Autor(innen)

Andrea Peto is Professor in the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University, Vienna Austria and a Doctor of Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. She is teaching courses on European comparative social and gender history, gender and politics, women’s movements, qualitative methods, oral history, and the Holocaust.

Ildikó Barna is Associate Professor at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest