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Moral Autopsy: truths, secrets, and the judicial afterlives of communist secret service archives

Florin Poenaru

Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe | Oct 17, 2026

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Saygun Gökarıksel’s Moral Autopsy is a rich ethnographic inquiry into Polish lustration, the complex legal and institutional procedures through which post-socialist Poland vetted individuals for co...

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@article{Poenaru2026Moral,
  title = {Moral Autopsy: truths, secrets, and the judicial afterlives of communist secret service archives},
  author = {Florin Poenaru},
  journal = {Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.1080/25739638.2026.2749826},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/25739638.2026.2749826}
}

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