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Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Romania
The Politics of Memory
This is the first volume to overview the complex Romanian transitional justice effort.
Lavinia Stan (Author)
9781107429253, Cambridge University Press
Paperback / softback, published 10 July 2014
312 pages, 3 tables
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.42 kg
'Over recent years, the study of transitional justice in newly democratic countries has turned towards much more comprehensive accounts of the ensemble of measures and controversies that societies can adopt to deal with a repressive past. Lavinia Stan's book is a fine example of this turn in the discipline, as she attempts to systematise the broad range of issues and policies that Romania has engaged with in its past two decades of democratic change.' Vello Pettai, East European Politics
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.
1. Introduction
2. Court trials
3. Public access to secret files
4. Lustration
5. Truth commission and official condemnation
6. Restitution of property
7. Compensation and rehabilitation
8. Rewriting history textbooks
9. Unofficial projects
10. Conclusion.
