"In March 1933 the economic section of the Soviet secret police arrested six British engineers employed by the Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, provoking a confrontation that brought Anglo-Soviet relations to the brink of disaster." "In this first full-length study of th…
Describes the prosecution of Nazi war criminals in the Soviet Zone of occupation and in the GDR, commenting that the number of actual war criminals was small in proportion to those suspected of opposing the communist regime. Soon the GDR declared that it had completed the purge …
Die soziologische Gewaltforschung droht zu stagnieren, neue Forschungsimpulse sind gefragt. Denn: Gewalt ist erklärungsbedürftig! Die Autoren schlagen vor, konsequent an prozessualen Erklärungen von Gewalt zu arbeiten, wobei es nicht darum geht, die üblichen Warum-Fragen zu stel…
"Conscience on Trial reveals the startling story, kept secret for sixty years, of ordinary citizens caught up in the elaborate machinery of political terror in Stalinist Ukraine. In 1952, fourteen poor, barely literate Seventh-Day Adventists living on the margins of Soviet socie…
700 years after the dissolution of the order, the trial of the Templars still arouses controversy and speculation. Individual chapters in this book examine various aspects of the background to the trial including the financial, political and religious context of the trial in Fra…
Dieses Buch bietet einen Überblick über den Prozess gegen die Hauptkriegsverbrecher des 'Dritten Reiches', der vom Internationalen Militärtribunal in Nürnberg auf Veranlassung der Alliierten eingeleitet worden war. Angeklagt war ein verbrecherisches Regime, das die Welt in einen…
