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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    18 November 2025
    30 October 2025
    ISBN:
    9781009653800
    9781009653794
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009653800
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.677kg, 350 Pages
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    • Subjects:
    Socio-Legal Studies, Russian and East European Government, Politics and Policy, Law, Politics and International Relations
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
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    Subjects:
    Socio-Legal Studies, Russian and East European Government, Politics and Policy, Law, Politics and International Relations
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
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    While communism was proclaimed dead in Eastern Europe around 1989, archives of communist secret services lived on. They became the site of judicial and moral examination of lives, suspicions of treason or 'collaboration' with the criminalized communist regime, and contending notions of democracy, truth, and justice. Through close study of court trials, biographies, media, films, and plays concerning judges, academics, journalists, and artists who were accused of being communist spies in Poland, this critical ethnography develops the notion of moral autopsy to interrogate the fundamental problems underlying global transitional justice, especially, the binary of authoritarianism and liberalism and the redemptive notions of transparency and truth-telling. It invites us to think beyond Eurocentric teleology of transition, capitalist nation-state epistemology and prerogatives of security and property, and the judicialized and moralized understanding of history and politics.

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