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Historical Injustice and Democratic Transition in Eastern Asia and Northern Europe: Ghosts at the Table of Democracy - Hardcover

 
9780700715992: Historical Injustice and Democratic Transition in Eastern Asia and Northern Europe: Ghosts at the Table of Democracy
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0700715991 ISBN 13: 9780700715992
Publisher: Routledge, 2002

Synopsis

The memory of past atrocity lingers like a ghost at the table of democracy. Injustices carried out in the past - from massacres and murder to repression and detention - embitter societies and distort their structures so that the process of establishing and running a democracy carries an extra burden. This volume examines societies at various stages of dealing with the memory of the past, from China, Mongolia, Indonesia and the Baltic States, where bitter memories of death and persecution still intrude, to Finland, where the civil war of 1918 has finally been accepted as a distant national tragedy.

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About the Author

Kenneth Christie lectures in the Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen, Norway. Robert Cribb is Reader in Southeast Asian history at the University of Queensland.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2002
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0700715991
ISBN 13 
9780700715992
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
224
Editor
Christie Kenneth, Cribb Robert