Die diskursive Übersetzung des Wandels: Parlamentarische Debatten zur Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung in Polen nach 1989.

The article discusses speeches and debates in the Sejm, the national parliament of Poland, regarding the country's Communist past and collective memory, as highlighted by controversies about lustration legislation concerning the removal of officials implicated in Communist violations of the rule of law. It argues that many of the rhetorical strategies of coming to terms with the past were taken from the attempts by other countries to deal with past experiences of dictatorship, including Germany, the Czech Republic, and Portugal. It suggests that speakers selected international examples based on their political ideologies and attitudes toward retribution, restitution, and reconciliation.