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100	1		_aTISMANEANU, Vladimir _924372
245	1	0	_aDemocracy and memory : _bRomania confronts its communist past
260			_aThousand Oaks : _bSAGE, _cMay 2008
520	3		_aAll postcommunist societies face major dilemmas in confronting their traumatic past. A functional democracy cannot be based on lies, denial, and amnesia. Romania's exit from communism has resulted in a hybrid quasi-democratic regime, with former communists like Ion Iliescu maintaining influential positions and opposing a genuine break with the past. In 2006, President Traian Basescu established a Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania; the author of this article was selected as its chair. The commission's Final Report was the basis for President Basescu's condemnation of the communist dictatorship as illegitimate and criminal. Offering a comparative perspective, the author focuses on the debates that led to the creation of the commission, the commission's activity and the fierce attacks on it by nostalgic communists and xenophobic nationalists, and the impact of moral justice on Romania's democratic political culture
773	0	8	_tThe Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science _g617, p. 166-180 _dThousand Oaks : SAGE, May 2008 _xISSN 00027162 _w
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998			_a20080624 _b2028^b _cTiago
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999			_aConvertido do Formato PHL _bPHL2MARC21 1.1 _c26863 _d26863
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