Home > Research > Publications & Outputs > Historical politics and court redress in the Ba...

Research

Associated organisational units

Electronic data

  • Fijalkowski_chapter_final

    Rights statement: This material has been published in Transitional Justice and the Former Soviet Union edited by Cynthia M. Horne and Lavinia Stan. This version is free to view and download for personal use only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. © Cambridge University Press

    Accepted author manuscript, 379 KB, PDF document

    Available under license: CC BY-NC: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

Links

Text available via DOI:

Keywords

View graph of relations

Historical politics and court redress in the Baltic States

Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

Published

Standard

Historical politics and court redress in the Baltic States. / Fijalkowski, Agata Alexandra.
Transitional Justice and the Former Soviet Union : Reviewing the Past, Looking toward the Future. ed. / Cynthia Horne; Lavinia Stan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. p. 216-240.

Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

Harvard

Fijalkowski, AA 2018, Historical politics and court redress in the Baltic States. in C Horne & L Stan (eds), Transitional Justice and the Former Soviet Union : Reviewing the Past, Looking toward the Future. Cambridge University Press, New York, pp. 216-240. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108182171.011

APA

Fijalkowski, A. A. (2018). Historical politics and court redress in the Baltic States. In C. Horne, & L. Stan (Eds.), Transitional Justice and the Former Soviet Union : Reviewing the Past, Looking toward the Future (pp. 216-240). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108182171.011

Vancouver

Fijalkowski AA. Historical politics and court redress in the Baltic States. In Horne C, Stan L, editors, Transitional Justice and the Former Soviet Union : Reviewing the Past, Looking toward the Future. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2018. p. 216-240 doi: 10.1017/9781108182171.011

Author

Fijalkowski, Agata Alexandra. / Historical politics and court redress in the Baltic States. Transitional Justice and the Former Soviet Union : Reviewing the Past, Looking toward the Future. editor / Cynthia Horne ; Lavinia Stan. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018. pp. 216-240

Bibtex

@inbook{f3b3731bce714ca89eb796363a826d1f,
title = "Historical politics and court redress in the Baltic States",
abstract = "This chapter examines the Baltic states{\textquoteright} efforts to frame and interpret communist-era crimes through the lens of three European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decisions. The cases were driven by petitions from citizens from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania who, after 1991, failed to get redress in domestic courts on issues related to communist-era actions and offenses. The verdicts in themselves are documents that reflect a certain understanding of the history of the region. In other words, both the decisions and the ways in which communist-era actions are characterized as actionable crimes according to domestic and international law constitute important practices of transitional justice.",
keywords = "transitional justice, former Soviet Union, Baltic states, European Court of Human Rights, court redress",
author = "Fijalkowski, {Agata Alexandra}",
note = "This material has been published in Transitional Justice and the Former Soviet Union edited by Cynthia M. Horne and Lavinia Stan. This version is free to view and download for personal use only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. {\textcopyright} Cambridge University Press",
year = "2018",
month = feb,
doi = "10.1017/9781108182171.011",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781107198135",
pages = "216--240",
editor = "Cynthia Horne and Lavinia Stan",
booktitle = "Transitional Justice and the Former Soviet Union",
publisher = "Cambridge University Press",

}

RIS

TY - CHAP

T1 - Historical politics and court redress in the Baltic States

AU - Fijalkowski, Agata Alexandra

N1 - This material has been published in Transitional Justice and the Former Soviet Union edited by Cynthia M. Horne and Lavinia Stan. This version is free to view and download for personal use only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. © Cambridge University Press

PY - 2018/2

Y1 - 2018/2

N2 - This chapter examines the Baltic states’ efforts to frame and interpret communist-era crimes through the lens of three European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decisions. The cases were driven by petitions from citizens from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania who, after 1991, failed to get redress in domestic courts on issues related to communist-era actions and offenses. The verdicts in themselves are documents that reflect a certain understanding of the history of the region. In other words, both the decisions and the ways in which communist-era actions are characterized as actionable crimes according to domestic and international law constitute important practices of transitional justice.

AB - This chapter examines the Baltic states’ efforts to frame and interpret communist-era crimes through the lens of three European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decisions. The cases were driven by petitions from citizens from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania who, after 1991, failed to get redress in domestic courts on issues related to communist-era actions and offenses. The verdicts in themselves are documents that reflect a certain understanding of the history of the region. In other words, both the decisions and the ways in which communist-era actions are characterized as actionable crimes according to domestic and international law constitute important practices of transitional justice.

KW - transitional justice

KW - former Soviet Union

KW - Baltic states

KW - European Court of Human Rights

KW - court redress

U2 - 10.1017/9781108182171.011

DO - 10.1017/9781108182171.011

M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)

SN - 9781107198135

SP - 216

EP - 240

BT - Transitional Justice and the Former Soviet Union

A2 - Horne, Cynthia

A2 - Stan, Lavinia

PB - Cambridge University Press

CY - New York

ER -