Transitional Justice and the Former Soviet Union

A comprehensive overview of the efforts of state and non-state actors in the former Soviet Union to redress the past.

Introduction Cynthia M. Horne; Part I. The Long Shadow of the Past: 1. Limited reckoning in the former Soviet Union: some explanatory factors Lavinia Stan; 2. Challenges to transitional justice in Russia Nanci Adler; 3. Public memory and communist legacies in Poland and Russia Mark Kramer; 4. Transitional justice attempts in Kazakhstan Alexei Trochev; 5. Historical reckoning in Belarus Nelly Bekus; Part II. Transitional Justice Programs, Practices and Legislation: 6. Lustration in Ukraine and democracy capable of defending itself Roman David; 7. Between politics and history: the Baltic truth commissions in global perspective Onur Bakiner; 8. Lustration: temporal, scope and implementation considerations Cynthia M. Horne; 9. Transitional justice and the revision of history textbooks: the 1932¿33 famine in Ukraine Lina Klymenko; 10. Historical politics and court redress in the Baltic states Agata Fijalkowski; Part III. Layered Pasts and the Politics of Denial: 11. Confronting the Soviet and post-Soviet past in Georgia Robert Austin; 12. Transitional justice lessons from Moldova Lavinia Stan; 13. Confronting multiple pasts in post-Soviet Armenia Oana-Valentina Suciu; 14. Learning from Serbian failure: the denial of three repressive pasts Nenad Dimitrijevi¿; 15. Entangled history, history education and affective communities in Lithuania Violeta Davoli¿t¿ and Dovil¿ Budryt¿; 16. Conclusion-transitional justice: uses, lessons and questions Alexandra Vacroux.