Lavinia Stan

Post-communist transitional justice : lessons from twenty-five years of experience

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.