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Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Romania

Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Romania The Politics of Memory

Author: Lavinia Stan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107020535
Published In: February 2013
Format: Hardback , 306 pages
Jurisdiction: Romania ? Disclaimer:
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A close examination of an understudied European Union member state such as Romania reveals that, since 1989, post-Communist state and non-state actors have adopted a wide range of methods, processes and practices of working through the Communist past. Both the timing and the sequencing of these transitional justice methods prove to be significant in determining the efficacy of addressing and redressing the crimes of 1945 to 1989. In addition, there is evidence that some of these methods have directly facilitated the democratization process, while the absence of other methods has undermined the rule of law. This is the first volume to overview the complex Romanian transitional justice effort by accessing secret archives and investigating court trials of former Communist perpetrators, lustration, compensation and rehabilitation, property restitution, the truth commission, the rewriting of history books, and unofficial truth projects.

• First volume to examine the complex transitional justice process adopted in post-Communist Romania

• Reviews a range of official and unofficial memory projects and shows the ways in which they complemented or undermined each other

• Discusses the importance of timing and sequencing in the implementation of transitional justice programs

Foreword by Mark Kramer	ix
Acknowledgments	xv
Romanian Institutions, Initiatives, and Names	xix
1. Introduction: Memory, Democracy, and Justice in Post-Communism	1
2. Court Trials	29
3. Public Access to Secret Files	58
4. Lustration	84
5. The Commission and Official Condemnation	111
6. Restitution of Property	136
7. Compensation and Rehabilitation	161
8. Rewriting History Textbooks	183
9. Unofficial Projects	205
10. Conclusion: Memory, Timing, and Democracy	233
Bibliography	255
Index	283