Introduction: Post-Communist Transitional Justice at 25

Nedelsky, Nadya; Stan, Lavinia

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“…The post-communist states of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have, to various degrees, engaged in transitional justice projects intended to reckon with their authoritarian pasts (Stan 2013a). Such projects have focused on trials of former communist officials, lustration, public access to security service files, property restitution, history commissions, and memorialisation projects, particularly for the victims of repression (Stan 2013a;2013b;Nedelsky and Stan 2015;Ciobanu 2015). Another important (but often overlooked) component of transitional justice is education.…”

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Education and post-communist transitional justice: negotiating the communist past in a memorial museum

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Creţan

Dunca

2019

Southeast European and Black Sea Studies

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This paper examines the role of education within post-communist transitional justice. It focuses on the ways in which young Romanians negotiate the communist past during an educational visit to a memorial museum. The museum enabled these visitors to better understand the repression of the communist era, had limited impact in changing their attitudes towards communism, but it did provoke reflection upon and comparison between the present and the communist past. Visitors recognized the role of the museum as a site of memory within post-communist transitional justice, but were also critically aware of the limitations to what the museum could achieve. The implications of these findings for post-communist transitional justice are examined.

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Education and post-communist transitional justice: negotiating the communist past in a memorial museum

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2019

Southeast European and Black Sea Studies

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“…This might lead to severe conflicts in society, particularly when the legitimate grievances and 'retributive emotions' of those persecuted by the former regime (Costa Pinto, 2008) come into conflict with the sentiments of its former loyalists. In the post-socialist context, to be sure, many attempts at transitional justice have largely fallen short in offering sufficient recognition to the victims and establishing a transparent, democratic dialogue about past involvement in the system and the lessons to be learned for building more robust institutions (Stan and Nedelsky, 2015). Transformation processes, however, are also challenging for those who initiate, implement, support or simply have to endure change.…”

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Deep Transformations: Lived Experiences and Emotions in Social Change Narratives

Hilmar,

Ķešāne,

Margies

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Cultural Sociology

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In this introduction to the special issue, we explore the political salience of emotions in times of large-scale social change, emphasizing the role of personal narratives in understanding and framing these transformations. We introduce the concept of ‘deep transformations’ to analyse radical shifts in various aspects of life and their emotional and cultural implications. Focusing on cases from the post-socialist world and one contribution from post-2008 Spain, the issue provides novel insights into the interplay between emotions, signification, and social change. We present our contributions as addressing three distinct levels, each underscoring the importance for integrating the sociology of emotions with cultural sociology more closely: remembering change, adapting to change, and imagining change.

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“…Many such societies have embarked on a process of "transitional justice" which is intended to reckon with the recent past. Transitional justice embraces a range of measures [7,8] intended to build democratic institutions founded on human rights. These measures include reforming the justice sector and promoting the rule of law; ensuring that perpetrators of violence are brought to account; establishing and acknowledging the nature of the violence that took place; and, sometimes, to bring about reconciliation and peace between former enemies.…”

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Museums and Transitional Justice: Assessing the Impact of a Memorial Museum on Young People in Post-Communist Romania

2021

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Memorial museums are frequently established within transitional justice projects intended to reckon with recent political violence. They play an important role in enabling young people to understand and remember a period of human rights abuses of which they have no direct experience. This paper examines the impact of a memorial museum in Romania which interprets the human rights abuses of the communist period (1947–1989). It uses focus groups with 61 young adults and compares the responses of visitors and non-visitors to assess the impact of the museum on views about the communist past, as well as the role of the museum within post-communist transitional justice. The museum had a limited impact on changing overall perceptions of the communist era but visiting did stimulate reflection on the differences between past and present, and the importance of long-term remembrance; however, these young people were largely skeptical about the museum’s role within broader processes of transitional justice. The paper concludes that it is important to recognize the limits of what memorial museums can achieve, since young people form a range of intergenerational memories about the recent past which a museum is not always able to change.

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Introduction: Post-Communist Transitional Justice at 25

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Education and post-communist transitional justice: negotiating the communist past in a memorial museum

Education and post-communist transitional justice: negotiating the communist past in a memorial museum

Deep Transformations: Lived Experiences and Emotions in Social Change Narratives

Museums and Transitional Justice: Assessing the Impact of a Memorial Museum on Young People in Post-Communist Romania

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