Transitional justice in post-communist Romania
Subtitle: the politics of memory
By: Lavinia Stan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781107020535
Subjects: Transitional justice; Law reform; Administration of Justice; LAW / Criminal Law / General
Description: "A close examination of an understudied European Union member state such as Romania reveals that, since 1989, postcommunist 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. It details the political negotiations that have led to the adoption of relevant legislation and assesses these processes in terms of their timing, sequencing, and impact on democratization"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 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.