Post-Communist Transitional Justice

Explores how the former communist regimes of Central and Eastern Europe have grappled with the serious human rights violations of past regimes.

Part I. Determinants of Transitional Justice: 1. Transitional justice and political goods Brian Grodsky; 2. Transitional justice as electoral politics Robert Austin; 3. Explaining late lustration programs: lessons from the Polish case Aleks Szczerbiak; Part II. The Impact of Transitional Justice: 4. The adoption and impact of transitional justice Moira Lynch and Bridget Marchesi; 5. Transitional justice effects in the Czech Republic Roman David; Part III. Key Challenges: 6. The timing of transitional justice measures Cynthia M. Horne; 7. The challenge of competing pasts Monica Ciobanu; 8. Beyond the national: pathways of diffusion Helga A. Welsh; 9. The mythologizing of communist violence Jelena Subotic; Part IV. History, Justice, and Public Memory: 10. Post-communist truth commissions: between transitional justice and the politics of history Andrew Beattie; 11. Public memory, commemoration, and transitional justice: reconfiguring the past in public space Duncan Light and Craig Young; 12. Stories we tell: documentary theater, performance, and justice in transition Olivera Simic; 13. Vigilante justice and unofficial truth projects Lavinia Stan.