Concept of Transitional Justice in Eastern European countries – 1989 revolutions and transitional justice – logic and reasons of post-communist transitional justice choices.

Lustrations

Reading list:

·       Huntington, Samuel (1998):  Third Wave. Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century. University of Oklahoma Press, s. 253-279.

·       Moran, John Paul (1994): The Communist Torturers of Eastern Europe: Prosecute and Punish or Forgive and Forget? Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Vol. 27, 1994, s. 95-109.

·       David, Roman (2003): Lustration Laws in Action: The Motives and Evaluation of Lustration Policy in the Czech Republic and Poland (1989-2001). Law and Social Inquiry 387

·       David, Roman (2015) Post-Communist Transitional Justice. Chapter:  Transitional Justice Effects in the Czech Republic.

·        Szczerbiak, Aleks (2016) Deepening democratisation? Exploring the declared motives for “late” lustration in Poland, East European Politics, 32:4, 426-445.

·         Weschler, Lawrence (1992). ‘The Velvet Purge: The Trials of Jan Kavan.’ The New Yorker, 19 October 1992. Available at: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1992/10/19/1992_10_19_066_TNY_CARDS_000365026