| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Pt. 1 | Framing, Comparing, Historicizing | 1 |
| Ch. 1 | Framing the Rule of Law in East-Central Europe | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | Comparing: Decommunization - Recommunization - Reform? | 26 |
| Ch. 3 | Historicizing the Rule of Law | 40 |
| Pt. 2 | Ethnography of Criminality | 57 |
| Ch. 4 | The Invocation of the Rechtsstaat in East Germany: Governmental and Unification Criminality | 59 |
| Ch. 5 | Accountability on Trial | 80 |
| Pt. 3 | Ethnography of Vindication | 97 |
| Ch. 6 | Democratic Accountability: Results, Evaluations, Ramifications | 99 |
| Ch. 7 | Justice and Dignity: Victims, Vindication, and Accountability | 111 |
| Pt. 4 | Legitimacy | 137 |
| Ch. 8 | The Rule of Law and the State: Violence, Justice, and Legitimacy | 139 |
| Notes | 167 |
| Bibliography | 177 |
| Index | 187 |
| Name Index | 195 |
