LEADER 03614nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910791479303321 005 20230725015604.0 010 $a1-282-72195-X 010 $a9786612721953 010 $a1-4008-3659-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400836598 035 $a(CKB)2560000000016133 035 $a(EBL)581799 035 $a(OCoLC)664573171 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000421482 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11271144 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000421482 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10412952 035 $a(PQKB)11371358 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC581799 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36850 035 $a(DE-B1597)446897 035 $a(OCoLC)979593509 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400836598 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL581799 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10409300 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL272195 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000016133 100 $a20100325d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aJustice in Luritz$b[electronic resource] $eexperiencing socialist law in East Germany /$fInga Markovits 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (257 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-14347-1 311 $a0-691-14348-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tTable of Contents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tChapter 1. The Files -- $tChapter 2. The Beginning -- $tChapter 3. People -- $tChapter 4. Property -- $tChapter 5. Work -- $tChapter 6. Families -- $tChapter 7. Punishments -- $tChapter 8. The Party -- $tChapter 9. Hopes And Lies -- $tChapter 10. The End -- $tNotes 330 $aAs 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 written a remarkable grassroots history of a legal system that set out with the utopian hopes of a few and ended in the anger and disappointment of the many. This is a story of ordinary men and women who experienced Socialist law firsthand--people who applied and used the law, trusted and resented it, manipulated and broke it, and feared and opposed it, but who all dealt with it in ways that help us understand what it meant to be a citizen in a twentieth-century Socialist state, what "Socialist justice" aimed to do, and how, in the end, it failed. Brimming with human stories of obedience and resistance, endurance and cunning, and cruelty and grief, Justice in Lüritz is ultimately a book about much more than the law, or Socialism, or East Germany. 606 $aLaw$zGermany (East)$xHistory$vCase studies 606 $aJustice, Administration of$zGermany (East)$xHistory$vCase studies 615 0$aLaw$xHistory 615 0$aJustice, Administration of$xHistory 676 $a349. 43/1 700 $aMarkovits$b Inga$0235234 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791479303321 996 $aJustice in Luritz$93767848 997 $aUNINA