Transitional justice encompasses a variety of measures devised to overcome legacies of
gross human rights violations and other historical injustices. The spread of international …

As Katherine Verdery observes," There's nothing like reading your secret police file to make
you wonder who you really are." In 1973 Verdery began her doctoral fieldwork in the …

This introductory essay begins with a discussion of World War II memory in Russia, Ukraine,
and Belarus, in light of the recent and ongoing war in Ukraine. It outlines the main contours …

Following the disestablishment of Communist Party rule in the Soviet bloc, political pressure
arose in nearly every East European country to cleanse the polity of legacies of the prior …

Ukraine has been wracked by a year of unprecedented political, economic, and military
turmoil. Russian military aggression in the east and a legacy of destructive policies and …

From Charlottesville to Cape Town, from Santiago to Sydney, we have recently witnessed
protesters demanding that symbols of racist or colonial pasts be dismantled and that we talk …

Memory has taken centre stage in European-level policies after the Cold War, as the
Western historical narrative based on the uniqueness of the Holocaust was being …

This paper conducts a thorough, systematic review of literature on Red or communist tourism
in China, exploring its development, key drivers, impacts, and management strategies …

When the regime led by Slobodan Milošević came to an end in October 2000, expectations
for social transformation in Serbia and the rest of the Balkans were high. The international …

How do transitional democracies deal with officials who have been tainted by complicity with
prior governments? Should they be excluded or should they be incorporated into the new …