Perpetrators, Accomplices and Victims in Twentieth-Century Politics: Reckoning with the Past

This book examines the way in which new democratic or semi-democratic regimes deal with an authoritarian or totalitarian past, whether fascist or communist, whether in Europe or Asia. It throws new light on issues of democratization, collective memory, the treatment of history and the problem of transitional justice from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Introduction Anatoly M. Khazanov and Stanley G. Payne Post-Totalitarian Narratives in Germany: Reflections on Two Dictatorships after 1945 and 1989 Jeffrey Herf The 'Examination of Conscience' of the Nation: The Lost Debate About the 'Collective Guilt' in Italy, 1943'5 Luca La Rovere Negotiating War Legacies and Postwar Democracy in Japan Franziska Seraphim Innocent Culprits ' Silent Communities. On the Europeanisation of the Memory of the Shoah in Austria Eva Kovacs Should France be Ashamed of its History? Coming to Terms with the Past in France and its Eastern Borderlands Laird Boswell From Invisibility to Power: Spanish Victims and the Manipulation of their Symbolic Capital Ignacio Fernández de Mata The Legacy of the Authoritarian Past in Portugal's Democratisation, 1974'6 António Costa Pinto Whom to Mourn and Whom to Forget? (Re)constructing Collective Memory in Contemporary Russia Anatoly M. Khazanov Accomplices Without Perpetrators: What Do Economists Have to Do with Transitional Justice in Hungary? János Mátyás Kovács Crime and Punishment in Communist Czechoslovakia: The Case of General Heliodor Píka and his Prosecutor Karel Vas Milan Hauner Cambodia Deals with its Past: Collective Memory, Demonisation and Induced Amnesia David Chandler Neither Truth nor Reconciliation: Political Violence and the Singularity of Memory in Post-socialist Mongolia Christopher Kaplonski Raising Sheep on Wolf Milk: The Politics and Dangers of Misremembering the Past in China Edward Friedman How to Deal with the Past? Anatoly M. Khazanov and Stanley G. Payne