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Author Markovits, Inga.

Title Justice in Luritz : experiencing socialist law in East Germany / Inga Markovits.

Publication Info. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (244 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Contents The files -- The beginning -- People -- Property -- Work -- Families -- Punishments -- The party -- Hopes and lies -- The end.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary As a child, Inga Markovits dreamt of stealing and reading every letter contained in a mailbox at a busy intersection of her town in order to learn what life is all about. When, decades later, working as a legal historian, she tracked down the almost complete archive of a former East German trial court, she knew that she had finally found her mailbox. Combining her work in this extraordinary archive with interviews of former plaintiffs and defendants, judges and prosecutors, government and party functionaries, and Stasi collaborators, all in the little town she calls "Lüritz," Markovits has wri.
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Subject Law -- Germany (East) -- History -- Case studies.
Law.
Germany (East)
History.
Justice, Administration of -- Germany (East) -- History -- Case studies.
Justice, Administration of.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books -- Case studies -- History.
Subject Law.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Added Title Gerechtigkeit in Lüritz. English
Other Form: Print version: Markovits, Inga. Gerechtigkeit in Lüritz English. Justice in Luritz. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2010 9780691143484 (DLC) 2010012558 (OCoLC)586134585
ISBN 9781400836598 (electronic book)
140083659X (electronic book)
069114348X
9780691143484
0691143471
9780691143477
128272195X
9781282721951
Standard No. 9786612721953