Abstract
The practice of transitional justice in Poland has been closely linked to the process of democratization, but the nature and dynamics of that relationship have remained hotly contested. While both the opponents and the proponents of so-called ‘lustration’ justified their positions in the vocabulary of liberal democracy, they tended to approach the concepts of rights and democracy from two theoretically distinct positions. The debates surrounding this issue revealed and solidified the post-communist cleavage within the group of the former dissidents in regard to their normative theorization of democracy, and a characteristic of this cleavage was polarization of the concepts of restorative justice and retributive justice.
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