Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I. LOSING FACE; Photospread; Chapter One. Owners of Pain; Chapter Two. Arrest; Chapter Three. Interrogations; Chapter Four. Trial; Part II. RECONCILIATION; Chapter Five. Recovering Lost Face; Chapter Six. Beyond Ceremonial Sound; Chapter Seven. Last Visit; Conclusion; References; Index; About the Author
Summary
Czech Political Prisoners is about the legacy of political violence under Socialism in Central Eastern Europe. In light of reconciliation, in post-Socialist Czech Republic former political prisoners' various memories reveal how the notions of time, space, and law were altered under the long-term terror of a totalitarian regime. Claiming their lost social face, political prisoners reveal their redefined subjectivities and new forms of social relations-kinship and citizenship
