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First edition
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Also published in print
ISBN:
9780755601363
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- List of tables -- Foreword -- 1 Approaches to the study of transitional justice -- Introduction -- Seeking Historical Justice -- What is transitional justice? -- Transitional justice in Central and Eastern Europe -- The requisites of transitional justice -- Mechanisms of transitional justice -- Prosecution -- Rehabilitation and compensation -- Restitution -- Vetting and lustration -- Investigative commissions and access to files -- Explanations of post-communist transitional justice -- Historical approaches -- Political explanations -- Rational choice -- Conclusion.
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2 The politics of transitional justice in Poland 1989-2015 -- Introduction -- The fall of communism -- Mazowiecki and transitional justice -- Criminal investigations -- Personnel policy -- Rehabilitation of the wrongfully convicted -- Restitution -- The Olszewski government -- The SLD-PSL coalition 1993-7 -- Lustration -- Criminal trials -- Transitional justice 1997-2015 -- Lustration -- Compensation for past wrongs -- SLD governments 2001-5 -- Law and Justice -- Changes under the PiS governments -- The government of Civic Platform 2007-15 -- Conclusion.
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3 Reparations through rehabilitation and compensation -- Introduction -- Workers' rights -- The rehabilitation of individuals -- The historical sources of persistent division -- Rehabilitation -- The New Rehabilitation Laws -- The Law on combatants and repressed persons -- The rehabilitation law -- The evolution of the combatants' law -- The evolution of the rehabilitation law -- Other laws -- Anti-communist activists -- The Brześć Trial -- The Constitutional Tribunal -- Compensation -- Conclusion -- 4 Dealing with past crimes -- The judicial process -- The statute of limitations.
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Leadership trials -- Deaths on the Baltic Coast -- December 1970: Substantive matters -- Martial law trials -- Wujek -- The decision to implement martial law -- Issues in the martial law decisions -- Martial law in the courts -- The Constitutional Tribunal -- The martial law trial -- Conclusion -- 5 The restitution of property -- The restitution of collective property -- The trades unions -- Religious bodies -- The Roman Catholic Church -- The Property Commission -- Criticism and challenge -- Allegations of corruption and criminality -- Other religious bodies -- Polish Orthodoxy.
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The Jewish communities -- Other faiths -- The restoration of individual private property -- Jewish property -- Restitution to the people from beyond the Bug -- The case of Warsaw -- Conclusion -- 6 Lustration. The first stage 1989-2005 -- Introduction -- Lustration and its implications -- The first steps -- The lustration resolution -- Arguments for lustration -- Arguments against lustration -- The SLD after 1993 -- The government of Jerzy Buzek -- Lustration under the SLD -- Wild lustration -- Conclusion -- 7 Lustration after the fall of the SLD: The return of the Right -- PiS in power 2005.
Content:
"In this study of the mechanisms of transitional justice in Poland, Frances Millard asks: How does society come to terms with its past? How should it punish the perpetrators of oppression and acknowledge its victims? In the former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe the task of answering these questions came down to the need to eliminate the communist parties' hold over the state, the economy and society in order to move towards democracy. Millard argues that the key step in achieving this was uncovering the truth about the previous regime's past, prosecuting the perpetrators of past crimes and providing compensation and restitution for its victims. Through the specific case of Poland, Millard provides a comprehensive assessment of the mechanisms and institutions used to achieve this, such as lustration, law enforcement through a Constitutional Tribunal and institutions dedicated to dealing with the past such as the Institute of National Remembrance. Crucially, these processes have assumed new significance in recent years after the Law and Justice Party came to power in 2015, using transitional justice as a tool of political control which has enabled the restructuring of Polish democracy."--
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ISBN 9780755636617
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 1
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 1
Language:
English
Keywords:
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DOI:
10.5040/9780755601363
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