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Transitional justice in Poland : memory and the politics of the past / Frances Millard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Millard, Frances, 1944- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Transitional justice--Poland.
- Transitional justice.
- Reparation (Criminal justice)--Poland.
- Reparation (Criminal justice).
- Poland.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York, NY : I.B. Tauris, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- 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
- 2 The politics of transitional justice in Poland 1989-2015
- The fall of communism
- Mazowiecki and transitional justice
- Criminal investigations
- Personnel policy
- Rehabilitation of the wrongfully convicted
- The Olszewski government
- The SLD-PSL coalition 1993-7
- Lustration
- Criminal trials
- Transitional justice 1997-2015
- Compensation for past wrongs
- SLD governments 2001-5
- Law and Justice
- Changes under the PiS governments
- The government of Civic Platform 2007-15
- 3 Reparations through rehabilitation and compensation
- 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
- 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 martial law trial
- 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
- 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
- 6 Lustration. The first stage 1989-2005
- 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
- 7 Lustration after the fall of the SLD: The return of the Right
- PiS in power 2005
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 05, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version
- ISBN:
- 9780755601349
- 0755601343
- 9780755601363
- 075560136X
- Publisher Number:
- 40030397517
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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