Law, visual culture, and the show trial [electronic resource] / Agata Fijalkowski.

"Addressing the relationship between law and the visual, this book examines the importance of photography in Central, East, and Southeast European show trials. The dispensation of justice during communist rule in Albania, East Germany, and Poland was reliant on legal propaganda, making the visual a...

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Main Author: Fijalkowski, Agata (Author)
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
Series:Discourses of law
Subjects:
Trials (Political crimes and offenses) > Social aspects > Communist countries > History > 20th century.
Trials (Political crimes and offenses) > Germany (East) > History > 20th century.
Trials (Political crimes and offenses) > Albania > History > 20th century.
Trials (Political crimes and offenses) > Poland > History > 20th century.
Law > Europe, Eastern > Soviet influences > History > 20th century.
Show trials
Online Access:
Taylor & Francis Complete 2023 eBooks: 2023 (Taylor & Francis eBooks)
Taylor & Francis eBooks (Complete Collection): 2023 (Taylor & Francis eBooks)
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Stalinist justice in Central and Eastern Europe
  • Law, visual culture, and the show trial in Soviet times
  • Law, visual culture, and the show trial in Albania
  • Law, visual culture, and the show trial in East Germany
  • Law, visual culture, and the show trial in Poland
  • Conclusion.