| Titre | Viewing, reading, and listening to the trials in Eastern Europe : Charting a New Historiography | |
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| Auteur | Nadège Ragaru, Victoria Baena | |
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Revue | Cahiers du monde russe |
| Numéro | volume 61, no 3-4, juillet-décembre 2020 Écritures visuelles, sonores et textuelles de la justice | |
| Page | 297-316 | |
| Résumé anglais |
In the wake of recent scholarly works dedicated to the visual history of the Holocaust, on the one hand, and to the history of trials for war crimes and/or against political opponents in Eastern Europe, on the other, this introduction to the thematic issue of Cahiers du Monde russe proposes recasting the terms of the debate : by expanding the scope of the inquiry to relations between visual, audio and written sources, it revises our understanding of the relationship between the truth value of images and the establishment of truth through recourse to images. The aim here is twofold : to give proper place to the diverse forms of documentation that grant access to knowledge on criminal justice and the Holocaust ; and to beckon into the field of investigation the broad extent of techniques, sentiments, and gestures that modulate their creation and reception. Ranging through history, history of science, history of art and anthropology, the introduction articulates two questions relating to the (past) practices of social actors and those of (today's) scholars. First, given the didactic role of justice in communist spheres, how can the impact of (audio)visual and written materials on the judicial spectacle, as it was shaped and deciphered by its recipients, be measured? Second, how can these three distinct ways of producing and rendering judicial proceedings be examined together, and what novel insights are likely to emerge as a result? Five essays, each of which studies proceedings conducted within national (USSR, Czechoslovakia, Latvia) or international (Nuremberg) jurisdictions from the 1920s to the 1960s, provide nuanced answers to these questions. Each of them, too, refutes any clear- cut dichotomy between war crimes trials (in the West) and prosecutions of political opponents (in the East). Source : Éditeur (via Cairn.info) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=CMR_613_0297 |
