Criminalising the past and reconstructing collective memory: The Romanian truth commission

Europe - Asia Studies

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 313-336

  Ciobanu, Monica ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; MEMORY; POLITICS; POST-COMMUNISM; RECONSTRUCTION; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 62249218190     PISSN: 09668136     EISSN: 14653427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09668130802630870     Document Type: Article

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