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Prosecuting Soviet genocide: comparing the politics of criminal justice in the Baltic states

ABSTRACT This study compares the politics of post-Soviet retrospective criminal justice processes in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania after 1991. Taking an institutionalist approach, it pays particular attention to the interactions between judicial and non-judicial institutions in the search for truth and justice, and analyses how the nature of this interaction determines processes of historical narrative framing and remembering in the public domain. The study, thus, not only provides a comparative discussion of legal frameworks and legal practices in all three states, but also links this with a critical examination of the investigatory infrastructure put up by state legislators to enhance prosecutorial capacity and efficiency. Its main contention is that such an analysis of the institutional context of investigations and trials is essential in order to better understand how judicial procedures and resulting truths translate into public historical discourses and collective memory.