Andrea Peto is Professor in the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University, Vienna Austria and a Doctor of Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. She is teaching courses on European comparative social and gender history, gender and politics, women’s movements, qualitative methods, oral history, and the Holocaust. Ildikó Barna is Associate Professor at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

• LIST OF FIGURESFOREWORDPOLITICAL JUSTICE IN EUROPE: THE STATE OF RESEARCHLEGAL BACKGROUND TO THE PEOPLE’S TRIBUNALS AND THEIR OPERATION IN HUNGARYThe System of People’s Tribunals and the Actors in the ProcessThe Crimes and the Range of PunishmentsControversies Surrounding the Law on People’s TribunalsRESEARCH METHODOLOGYMethod of ApproachPreparation PhaseTraining of the EncodersThe Final QuestionnaireResearch PhaseSeveral Notes on the Methodology and the FindingsANALYSIS OF THE PEOPLE’S TRIBUNAL CASESTypes of CasesCharacteristics of the Case FilesAnalysis of the Various Actors in the People’s TribunalsSummary of the Demographics of Defendants and Witnesses in the Various Types of CasesCharacteristics of the People’s Tribunal CasesA GENDERED ANALYSIS OF POLITICAL JUSTICE IN HUNGARY IN THE AFTERMATH OF WORLD WAR IIWomen in Political Justice: Stereotypes and Reality about Women PerpetratorsWitnessesCourt JudgmentsWomen People’s JudgesSummary: Gender in Political JusticeJEWISH IDENTITY AND THE PEOPLE’S TRIBUNALSCharacteristics of the People’s Tribunal CasesDefendants and Their CharacteristicsWitnesses and Their CharacteristicsCourt JudgmentsJewish Identity and the Practice of Political JusticeSUMMARYBIBLIOGRAPHY