The difficulties of dealing with the past in societies with newly established democratic regimes

Princeton University, Campus Announcements
Polish journalist and activist Adam Michnik will deliver a lecture titled "A Dictatorship's Past: The Cleansing of Collective Memory" at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 14, in 219 Burr Hall.
The lecture will focus on the difficulties of dealing with the past in societies with newly established democratic regimes. Michnik will examine transitions to pluralism and democracy in Germany after World War II, in various Latin American countries in the 1980s and 1990s, in post-apartheid South Africa and in post-communist East-Central Europe.