Transitional Justice in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
Transitional Justice in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union During the last two decades, the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have attempted to address the numerous…
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Transitional Justice in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
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. 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. This book examines the main processes of transitional justice that permitted societies in those countries to come to terms with their recent past.
Individual chapters explore the progress of transitional justice in Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Slovenia and the
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