1st Edition
Political Justice in Budapest after World War II
136 Pages
by
Central European University Press
136 Pages
by
Central European University Press
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.
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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
Biography
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
