Transitional and Retrospective Justice in the Baltic States
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More than twenty years after the fall of communism, many countries in Central and Eastern Europe are still seeking truth and justice for the repression suffered under communist rule. This search has been particularly notable in the Baltic states, given the three countries' histories as both former Soviet republics and later member-states of the European Union. On the one hand, the legacy of Stalinist oppression was more severe in these countries than elsewhere in Central Europe, but on the other hand much of this past could more easily be externalized onto the former Soviet Union (and by extension Russia) following re-independence. Transitional and Retrospective Justice in the Baltic States develops a novel conceptual framework in order to understand the politics involved with transitional and retrospective justice, and then applies this outline to the Baltic states to analyse more systematic patterns of truth- and justice-seeking in the post-communist world.
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In the post-communist space, the more recent and long-lasting experience of Stalinism and Soviet occupation looms larger in public memory than the Holocaust.
“the same cannot be said for the post-communist space, where the more recent and long-lasting experience of Stalinism and Soviet occupation loom larger in public memory (Pettai and Pettai 2014).”
From Cold War cinema and the traumatic turn in Europe:<i>Fact</i>(1980) as a Soviet mirror of the Holocaust film (2020) · cites this paper as Pettai and Pettai 2014
The Abstract (page unavailable) says that all three Baltic states commemorate Holocaust victims and victims of Stalinist deportations, while suffering under Soviet rule receives particular attention. That supports the comparison for the Baltic states, but the copy does not establish it across the post-communist space or attribute the difference to Soviet rule being more recent and long-lasting. (LLM, conf=0.84)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredAlbania passed several lustration laws early in its transition focused on the proximate Communist period, but they were limited in implementation, suffered from political instrumentalization, and expired with little impact.
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Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredIn Western Europe, the genocide of the Jews was narrated into public memory as the defining trauma of WWII and the foundation of cosmopolitan identity, with cinema playing a key role.
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- Authors
- Pettai, E.-C., & Pettai, V.
- Affiliations
- University of Tartu (EE)
- ORCID
- Pettai, Vello
- Venue
- Cambridge University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2014-12-18
- OpenAlex
- W2480610521
- Cited by
- 95
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 13 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 4.78
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- bvbr.bib-bvb.de
- Locations
- Cambridge University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Eastern European Communism and Reforms
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › War, Law, and Justice
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Memory, violence, and history
- Keywords
- transitional justice, Baltic states, Stalinist repression, truth-seeking, justice-seeking, post-communist politics, post-Soviet states, conceptual framework
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