Perpetrators, accomplices and victims in twentieth-century politics : reckoning with the past / edited by Anatoly M. Khazanov and Stanley Payne.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction / Anatoly M. Khazanov and Stanley G. Payne -- 2. Post-Totalitarian Narratives in Germany: Reflections on Two Dictatorships after 1945 and 1989 / Jeffrey Herf -- 3. The 'Examination of Conscience' of the Nation: The Lost Debate About the 'Collective Guilt' in Italy, 1943--5 / Luca La Rovere -- 4. Negotiating War Legacies and Postwar Democracy in Japan / Franziska Seraphim -- 5. Innocent Culprits -- Silent Communities. On the Europeanisation of the Memory of the Shoah in Austria / Eva Kovacs -- 6. Should France be Ashamed of its History? Coming to Terms with the Past in France and its Eastern Borderlands / Laird Boswell -- 7. From Invisibility to Power: Spanish Victims and the Manipulation of their Symbolic Capital Ignacio / Fernandez de Mata -- 8. The Legacy of the Authoritarian Past in Portugal's Democratisation, 1974--6 / Antonio Costa Pinto -- 9. Whom to Mourn and Whom to Forget? (Re)constructing Collective Memory in Contemporary Russia / Anatoly M. Khazanov -- 10. Accomplices Without Perpetrators: What Do Economists Have to Do with Transitional Justice in Hungary? / Janos Matyas Kovacs -- 11. Crime and Punishment in Communist Czechoslovakia: The Case of General Heliodor Pika and his Prosecutor Karel Vas / Milan Hauner -- 12. Cambodia Deals with its Past: Collective Memory, Demonisation and Induced Amnesia / David Chandler -- 13. Neither Truth nor Reconciliation: Political Violence and the Singularity of Memory in Post-socialist Mongolia / Christopher Kaplonski -- 14. Raising Sheep on Wolf Milk: The Politics and Dangers of Misremembering the Past in China / Edward Friedman -- 15. How to Deal with the Past? / Anatoly M. Khazanov and Stanley G. Payne.