Taking stock of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the collapse of the communist regimes of Central and Eastern Europe, this volume explores how these societies have grappled with the serious human rights violations of past regimes. It focuses on the most important factors that have shaped the nature, speed, and sequence of transitional justice programs in the period spanning the revolutions that brought about the collapse of the communist dictatorships and the consolidation of new democratic regimes. Contributors explain why leaders made certain choices, discuss the challenges they faced, and explore the role of under-studied actors and grassroots strategies. Written by recognized experts with an unparalleled grasp of the region's communist and post-communist reality, this volume addresses far-reaching reckoning, redress, and retribution policy choices. It is an engaging, carefully crafted volume, which covers a wide variety of cases and discusses key transitional justice theories using both qualitative and quantitative research methods.
Lavinia Stan is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at St Francis Xavier University, Canada. She is an associate editor of the peer-reviewed Women's Studies International Forum and, most recently, the co-author or co-editor of Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Romania (2013); Church, State and Democracy in the Expanding Europe (with Lucian Turcescu, 2011); and the three-volume Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice (with Nadya Nedelsky, 2013). Stan is also the author of more than fifty peer-reviewed articles published in the European Political Science Journal, Problems of Post-Communism, Communist and Post-Communist Politics, and Europe-Asia Studies.
Nadya Nedelsky is Associate Professor of International Studies at Macalester College. She is the author of Defining the Sovereign Community: National Identity, Individual Rights, and Minority Membership in the Czech and Slovak Republics (2009) and the co-editor of the three-volume Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice (with Lavinia Stan, 2013). She is author of the national report on the Czech and Slovak republics titled How the Memory of Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes in Europe is Dealt with in the Member States commissioned by the European Commission Directorate General of Justice, Freedom and Security.
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评分这本书的封面设计简直是一场视觉盛宴,色彩的运用大胆而富有深意,那种混合着历史厚重感和现代锐利感的字体选择,立刻就抓住了我的眼球。我甚至可以想象作者在构思这本书的框架时,是如何斟酌每一个排版细节的。装帧的质感也非常好,拿在手里沉甸甸的,让人油然而生一种庄重感,仿佛手中捧着的不仅仅是一本书,而是一份沉甸甸的时代记录。更不用说那后记中引用的那些古老的文献插图,虽然我还没完全深入文本,但光是这些视觉元素就已经为接下来的阅读体验铺设了一条充满悬念和期待的红毯。我特别喜欢那种留白的处理,既不过于拥挤,又恰到好处地引导读者的注意力,让人在翻阅时有一种沉浸式的仪式感,而不是匆忙地浏览信息。这本书的整体美学无疑是顶级的,这本身就说明了出版方对内容质量的自信和对阅读体验的尊重。
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