Remembrance, History, and Justice
Subtitle: Coming to Terms with Traumatic Pasts in Democratic Societies
Contributors: Iacob, Bogdan C.; Tismaneanu, Vladimir; Iacob, Bogdan C.
Publisher: CEU Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Hungary
Number of pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9789633860939
Subjects: Social & cultural history; Social issues & processes; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
Description: "The twentieth century has left behind a painful and complicated legacy of massive trauma, monstrous crimes, radical social engineering, or collective/individual guilt syndromes that were often the premises for and the specters haunting the process of democratization in the various societies that emerged out of these profoundly de-structuring contexts.

The present collection of essays is a state of the art reassessment and analysis of how the interplay between memory, history, and justice generates insight that is multifariously relevant for comprehending the present and future of democracy without becoming limited to a Europe-centric framework of understanding. The volume is structured on three complementary and interconnected trajectories: the public use of history, politics of memory, and transitional justice."
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