CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Hevey, Kirstyn Leigh |
|---|---|
| Title | ESTONIAN TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE: PREDICATED ON A COLLECTIVE MEMORY |
| Summary | In 1991 post-Soviet Estonia was confronted with the need to deal with the burdened legacies of its past and the independent regime began to implement transitional justice. This thesis argues that the process was predicated on a particular collective memory of the recent past that has been produced and reproduced through the works of two Estonian memory institutes, the Estonian International Commission for the Investigation of Crimes Against Humanity and the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory. This thesis analyzes the two institutes and their works, evaluating them as mechanisms of transitional justice. It argues that these two institutes regard the Soviet period of occupation as criminal, illegitimate, and immoral, and finds that the two bodies have selectively remembered Estonia's history and dismissed counter-narratives of the past, reflecting the goals of the present regime. As a result, some of the universal and normative goals of transitional justice have been compromised. Thus, this thesis concludes further efforts with transitional justice are required in Estonia. |
| Supervisor | Dimitrijevic, Nenad |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/hevey_kirstyn.pdf |
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