Post-communist transitional justice : lessons from twenty-five years of experience / edited by Lavinia Stan, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada; Nadya Nedelsky, Macalester College.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-331) and index.

Introduction : post-communist transitional justice at 25 / Nadya Nedelsky and Lavinia Stan -- Transitional justice and political goods / Brian Grodsky -- Transitional justice as electoral politics / Robert Clegg Austin -- Explaining late lustration programs : lessons from the Polish case / Aleks Szczerbiak -- The adoption and impact of transitional justice / Moira Lynch and Bridget Marchesi -- Transitional justice effects in the Czech Republic / Roman David -- The timing of transitional justice measures / Cynthia M. Horne -- The challenge of competing pasts / Monica Ciobanu -- Beyond the national : pathways of diffusion / Helga A. Welsh -- The mythologizing of communist violence / Jelena Subotic -- Post-communist truth commissions : between transitional justice and the politics of history / Andrew H. Beattie -- Public memory, commemoration and transitional justice : reconfiguring the past in public space / Duncan Light and Craig Young -- Stories we tell : documentary theater, performance and justice in transition / Olivera Simic -- Vigilante justice and unofficial truth projects / Lavinia Stan -- Conclusion / Nadya Nedelsky.