Frances Millard is Professor Emerita in the Department of Government, Member of the Human Rights Centre and former Dean of Social Sciences at the University of Essex. She is twice winner of the George Blazyca Prize of the British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies for the best book on Central and Eastern Europe.

• 1. Introduction: Approaches to the Study of Transitional Justice2. The Politics of Transitional Justice in Poland3. The Prosecution of Past Crimes4. Reparation through Rehabilitation and Compensation5. The Restitution of Property6. Lustration 1989-20057. Lustration after the fall of the SLD: The Return of the Right8. Transitional Justice and the Role of the Constitutional Tribunal9. The Role of the Institute of National Remembrance: The Politics of History and Memory10. PiS: The End of Transitional Justice and the New Project of Social TransformationIndex

In this insightful and detailed account Frances Millard deftly charts and explains the twists and turns of Poland’s three decades of debates about transitional justice. The book deserves to be on the shelves of all scholars and students concerned with how states and societies deal with difficult pasts, but also those interested in the consequences that decisions to punish, prosecute or draw lines have on the health and fate of democracy.