Politics of memory in post-authoritarian transitions, volume one.

Introduction; Chapter One; From Pinochet to systemic transition. A historical overview; The pre-transition identity; The development of transition identity; The exercise of power by new political elites; The presence of the representatives of the former regime in the public life; The formula chosen to hold the apparatus of the authoritarian regime accountable (or not accountable); Social costs of transformation, especially of the economic transition; The adoption of new, often culturally different, social and political standards

Democratisation as the fulfilment of intergenerational contract and paying tribute to the victims of the previous regime and to repressed oppositionThe historical need for national unity; Membership in international organisations, alliances and economic and political groups; The assumed post-transition identity; References; Chapter Two; A historical overview; Identity formation. The second Estonian national regeneration; The singing revolution; Democratisation. The "second" independence; The pre-transition identity. Homo Sovieticus?; The development of the transition identity

The exercise of power by the new political elitesThe presence of the representatives of the former regime in the public life; The formula chosen to hold the apparatus of the authoritarian regime accountable (or not accountable); Social costs of transformation, especially of the economic transition; The adoption of new, often culturally different, social and political standards; Democratisation as the fulfilment of intergenerational contract and paying tribute to the victims of the previous regime and to repressed opposition; The historical need for national unity

Membership in international organisations, alliances, and economic and political associationsThe assumed post-transition identity. A modern European society?; References; Chapter Three; Historical overview Two stages of the transition Two stages of the transition or two transitions?; The first stage. The second independence; The second independence. Democratisation; Pre-transition identity; The development of the transition identity; The exercise of power by the new political elites; The presence of the representatives of the former regime in the public life

The formula chosen to hold the apparatus of the authoritarian regime accountable (or not accountable)Social costs of transformation, especially of the economic transition; The adoption of new, often culturally different, social and political standards; Democratisation as the fulfilment of intergenerational contract and paying tribute to the victims of the previous regime and to repressed opposition; The historical need for national unity; Membership in international organisations, alliances, and economic and political associations; The assumed post-transition identity. A civil society?

History is a powerful tool in the hands of politicians, and can be a destructive weapon since power over the past is the power to decide who is a hero and who is a traitor. Tradition, the memory of ancestors, and the experience of previous generations are the keys that unlock the door to citizens' minds, and allow certain ideas, visions and political programs to flourish. However, can history be a proper political weapon during democratisation processes when the past is clearly separated from the present? Are the new order and society founded on the basis of some interpretation of the past, or.

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