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Moral Autopsy offers a groundbreaking analysis of how Communist secret service archives have shaped judicial processes, historical narratives, and social memory across post-communist societies. Saygun Gökarıksel examines the complex relationship between archival access, truth-seeking, and justice, revealing how documents hidden for decades become evidence in courts and shape national identities.
The book explores the tensions between transparency and security, individual rights and state interests, and historical truth and legal proceedings. Drawing on case studies from Eastern European courts and truth commissions, Gökarıksel demonstrates how secret archives continue to influence contemporary legal systems and collective memory long after political regimes have collapsed.
Published as part of Cambridge Studies in Law and Society, this work bridges law, history, and sociology to provide essential insights into the enduring consequences of state surveillance and the challenges of reckoning with authoritarian pasts through judicial frameworks.
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