Lustration (in Serbian), 2001.
Following the overthrow of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes and transition to a legal state which respects human rights and democracy, the problem of removing legal, moral and other vestiges of the previous regimes inevitably presents itself. The author considers lustration as a method of removing the remnants of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes. The book begins with an analysis of the concept of denazification as it is the best known measure of purgation and a measure that has much in common with lustration. In defining the concept of lustration, the author analyses the basic legal problems occurring during lustration – issues of retroactivity, the use of the former secret police’s archives, collective accountability, dismissal founded on political orientation from the public sector as well as the actual concept itself. The author further provides a comparative overview of laws on lustration of the formerly socialist countries – Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, Hungary and Slovenia. Since there is a five-year gap between the publication of the original Slovenian text and the Serbian edition, it includes a supplement, written by Marko Mićanović, where there is an examination of attempts at lustration after 1996.
