This book examines transitional justice in Eastern Europe and the former USSR, exploring their attempts to come to terms with the gross human abuses which characterized their communist past. It considers transitional justice in all its aspects, explaining why different countries adopted different models and how successful they have been.

Lavinia Stan teaches at Concordia University, Montreal. A political scientist working on transitional justice, religion and politics, and post-communist democratization, she is the author of Leaders and Laggards (2003), co-author of Religion and Politics in Post-Communist Romania (2007), and editor of Romania in Transition (1997).

Foreword Vladimir Tismaneanu 1. Post-Communist Transition, Justice and Transitional Justice Lavinia Stan 2. East Germany Gary Bruce 3. Czechoslovakia, and the Czech and Slovak Republics Nadya Nedelsky 4. Poland Lavinia Stan 5. Hungary Lavinia Stan 6. Romania Lavinia Stan 7. Bulgaria Momchil Metodiev 8. Albania Robert Austin and Jonathan Ellison 9. Slovenia Tamara Kotar 10. The Former Soviet Union Lavinia Stan 11. Explaining Country Differences Lavinia Stan