Archives & the problem of access in post-authoritarian regimes | WITNESS Media Archive
Connotea Imports 2012-07-31
Summary:
"As a matter of discussion, it may be instructive to look at how many post-authoritarian countries in Eastern Europe and elsewhere have addressed their archives of repression. In most cases, efforts to pass lustration laws and open up secret police files to citizens in order to come to terms with the past and advance reconciliation have been mixed or fared poorly..."