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Informationen zum Autor Cynthia M. Horne is Professor of Political Science at Western Washington University. Lavinia Stan is Professor of Political Science at St Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia. Klappentext A comprehensive overview of the efforts of state and non-state actors in the former Soviet Union to redress the past. Zusammenfassung Focusing on the understudied former Soviet republics! this volume looks at the ways in which state and non-state actors have reckoned (or not) with the legacy of communist-era mass atrocities and human rights abuses through the use of judicial and non-judicial transitional justice programs. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Cynthia M. Horne; Part I. The Long Shadow of the Past: 1. Limited reckoning in the former Soviet Union: some explanatory factors Lavinia Stan; 2. Challenges to transitional justice in Russia Nanci Adler; 3. Public memory and communist legacies in Poland and Russia Mark Kramer; 4. Transitional justice attempts in Kazakhstan Alexei Trochev; 5. Historical reckoning in Belarus Nelly Bekus; Part II. Transitional Justice Programs, Practices and Legislation: 6. Lustration in Ukraine and democracy capable of defending itself Roman David; 7. Between politics and history: the Baltic truth commissions in global perspective Onur Bakiner; 8. Lustration: temporal, scope and implementation considerations Cynthia M. Horne; 9. Transitional justice and the revision of history textbooks: the 1932-33 famine in Ukraine Lina Klymenko; 10. Historical politics and court redress in the Baltic states Agata Fijalkowski; Part III. Layered Pasts and the Politics of Denial: 11. Confronting the Soviet and post-Soviet past in Georgia Robert Austin; 12. Transitional justice lessons from Moldova Lavinia Stan; 13. Confronting multiple pasts in post-Soviet Armenia Oana-Valentina Suciu; 14. Learning from Serbian failure: the denial of three repressive pasts Nenad Dimitrijevi¿; 15. Entangled history, history education and affective communities in Lithuania Violeta Davoli¿t¿ and Dovil¿ Budryt¿; 16. Conclusion-transitional justice: uses, lessons and questions Alexandra Vacroux....
