POST-COMMUNIST LUSTRATION JUSTICE
POST-COMMUNIST LUSTRATION JUSTICE

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses the phenomenon of post-communist lustration, as a moral condemnation with a disqualifying political logic. Using the case study method, the paper aims to determine whether the lustration processes in the post-communist states were shaped by active political will or if they were the result of the desire to achieve social justice. The findings show that there was no uniform solution to the implementation of lustration and that the lustration elites opted for casuistic logic. A relevant factor, in terms of society and research, is the fact that states with similar structures and a communist past applied variable lustration mechanisms at different times, either at the beginning of the transition period or much later.

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