Abstract

It is determined in the article the specifis of lustration in Poland with the help of political analysis of the basic regulations and Public Opinion. Research of the Polish society to this issue. Proved that lustration in Poland corresponds to the «model of historical investigation» based on the discovery and disclosure of the truth about the victims and the perpetrators, not on punishing the criminal past. Conducting the lustration in this way was not only due to the nature of the negotiation character of the democratic transit, but also the social demands on the part of Polish society, which sought to restore the justice, but was not radical regarding the culprits of abuse and human rights violations in times of the previous undemocratic regime.