Introduction; 1. Post-communist transitional justice: framing the subject; 2. Comparable or incomparable: placing the Baltic states in context; 3. Punishing the perpetrators: criminal investigations and trials; 4. Truth or punishment: purges, bargains and exposure of wrongdoing; 5. Righting past wrong: rehabilitation, compensation and restitution for victims; 6. Official recognition of victims: non-judicial truth-seeking and commemoration; 7. External reverberations: the international dimension of Baltic truth and justice; Conclusions.
An empirically rich and conceptually informed study of the politics of transitional justice in post-communist Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Eva-Clarita Pettai is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Government and Politics, University of Tartu, Estonia. Vello Pettai is Professor of Comparative Politics and Director of the Institute of Government and Politics, University of Tartu, Estonia.
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