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- Offers an analysis of politically motivated justice from a comparative legal perspective; existing research has been limited to individual cases and missed identifying common characteristics of political trials in the former communist bloc
- Reveals the subversive and anti-democratic character of communist unwritten practices of politicized justice, which could lead to democratic backsliding in Europe
- Demonstrates how the communist legacies of political persecutions influence law and politics in contemporary post-Soviet states
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Table of contents (3 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Primarily aimed at legal practitioners such as human rights lawyers, prosecutors, and judges, as well as postgraduates, researchers, teaching assistants and university law professors, readers can gain from the book information that is useful in assessing the interdisciplinary phenomenon of politically motivated criminal justice in transitional and authoritarian post-Soviet republics. Additionally, the volume is indispensable to readers that are interested in Eastern European Studies, Transitional Justice, Law and Society, Slavic Studies, and Theory and History of State and Law.
Artem Galushko is a post-doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Germany.
Authors and Affiliations
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Kyiv, Ukraine
Artem Galushko
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Politically Motivated Justice
Book Subtitle: Authoritarian Legacies and Their Role in Shaping Constitutional Practices in the Former Soviet Union
Authors: Artem Galushko
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-459-4
Publisher: T.M.C. Asser Press The Hague
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: T.M.C. Asser Press and the author 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-6265-458-7Published: 01 April 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-6265-461-7Published: 02 April 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6265-459-4Published: 31 March 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 208
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law , Constitutional Law, Human Rights, Sources and Subjects of International Law, International Organizations, Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Political Science