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Lustration has two meanings, historical and modern: Historically, it was the term for various ancient Greek and Roman purification rituals. More recently, in the period after the fall of the various ...
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Lustration in Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lustration in Poland refers to the policy of limiting the participation of former communists, and especially informants of the communist secret police (from the years 1944–90), in the successor gover...
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As part of the democratic and political transitions in Central and Eastern Europe countries in the region have adopted lustration laws. Lustration laws are designed to expose those who collaborated with the former regime and bar them from public office. ... FAQ Research All Academic Inc. ... ; View Document as HTML:
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Transitional justice is commonly understood as a set of policy interventions designed to foster transitions from violent conflicts or authoritarian rules. ... The paper then closely examines various lustration laws adopted in several East/Central European countries. It focuses on three archetypal lustration laws which...
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STATE OF LUSTRATION LAWS IN THE; FORMER COMMUNIST BLOC; MARK S. ELLIS*; I; INTRODUCTION; Following the 1989 “democratic revolutions,” there was an immediate, though not surprising, backlash against former communist regimes.
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LUSTRATION LAWS; A. Czechoslovakia (The Czech Republic and Slovakia); B. Hungary; C. Albania; D. Bulgaria; E. The Baltics; F. Poland; G. Romania; H. Russia; I. Ukraine; J. Belarus; K. Central Asian Republics: Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan;
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Lustration laws in action: The motives and evaluation of lustration policy in the Czech Republic and Poland (1989-2001) 2003 ... Law and Social Inquiry ... School of Geography, Politics and Sociology...
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Two motions to delay the hearings on Poland's lustration laws were turned down. ... The Tribunal responded by saying that if the Parliament could pass 72 amendments to laws in one day, he could read 200 pages of file in one night. ... Some 700,000 people total are expected to be required to file lustration statements.
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The purpose of this overview is to point out what has been done in this respect in the countries in the region, i.e. what sort of laws envisaging the communist past exist, if a lustration law has been adopted or is under way and how the general debate on the topic develops.
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But the fact remains that lustration laws were motivated from the sound reasoning that the presence of former secret police officers or informers within the structures of a new government could have a destabilizing influence, and bring about a revival of authoritarian practices.
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