During the last two decades, the countries of Eastern Europe and
the former Soviet Union have attempted to address the numerous
human rights abuses that characterized the decades of communist
rule. This book examines the main processes of transitional justice
that permitted societies in those countries to come to terms with
their recent past. It explores lustration, the banning of communist
officials and secret political police officers and informers from
post-communist politic, ordinary citizens? access to the remaining
archives compiled on them by the communist secret police, as well
as trials and court proceedings launched against former communist
officials and secret agents for their human rights trespasses.
Individual chapters explore the progress of transitional justice in
Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania,
Bulgaria, Albania, Slovenia and the successor states of the former
Soviet Union. The chapters explain why different countries have
employed different models to come to terms with their communist
past; assess each country's relative successes and failures; and
probe the efficacy of country-specific legislation to attain the
transitional justice goals for which it was developed. The book
draws together the country cases into a comprehensive comparative
analysis of the determinants of post-communist transitional
justice, that will be relevant not only to scholars of
post-communist transition, but also to anyone interested in
transitional justice in other contexts.
General
Imprint: |
Routledge
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies |
Release date: |
October 2008 |
First published: |
2009 |
Editors: |
Lavinia Stan
|
Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
328 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-415-77671-4 |
Categories: |
Books >
Law >
Jurisprudence & general issues >
General
|
LSN: |
0-415-77671-6 |
Barcode: |
9780415776714 |
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