Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Spies, files and lies: explaining the failure of access to Securitate files

2004; Elsevier BV; Volume: 37; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.postcomstud.2004.06.003

1873-6920

Lavinia Stan,

International Law and Human Rights

Transitional justice in post-communist Romania has made little progress since the Council for the Study of Securitate Archives was set up in early 2000. This article discusses several factors that might explain the failure of giving citizens access to the files compiled by the communist-era secret political police and of publicly identifying the former political police agents and informers.