Accusatory practices : denunciation in modern European history, 1789-1989 / edited by Sheila Fitzpatrick and Robert Gellately.

Collection of essays originally published in the Journal of modern history, v. 68, no. 4, Dec. 1996; most of the essays were originally presented at a conference held Apr. 1994, University of Chicago.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to the practices of denunciation in modern European history / Sheila Fitzpatrick and Robert Gellately -- The theory and practice of denunciation in the French Revolution / Colin Lucas -- A culture of denunciation : peasant labor migration and religious anathematization in rural Russia, 1860-1905 / Jeffrey Burds -- Denunciation as a tool of ecclesiastical control : the case of Roman Catholic Modernism / Gary Lease -- Signals from below : Soviet letters of denunciation of the 1930s / Sheila Fitzpatrick -- Denunciation and its functions in Soviet governance : a study of denunciations and their bureaucratic handling from Soviet Police Archives, 1944-1953 / Vladimir A. Kozlov -- The uses of Volksgemeinschaft : letters to the NSDAP Kreisleitung Eisenach, 1939-1940 / John Connelly -- Denunciations in twentieth-century Germany : aspects of self-policing in the Third Reich and the German Democratic Republic / Robert Gellately.