The article deals with a relatively new area of research, among others in the legal sciences (vetting law, criminal law, human rights, international law), which is emerging in states building their social justice order as a result of the emergence of circumstances causing a distortion of their functioning – viewed through the prism of contemporary global standards. It is a phenomenon with an extremely broad spectrum, not limited to lawmaking, but furthermore encompassing a range of factual actions and even social attitudes towards historical pasts that must be dealt with in the new realities. The article has a de facto review character, and its objectives are primarily: to emphasize the existence of the main research areas, to show the need for this type
of scientific exploration, and to outline holistically its selected fundamental issues. Thus, the present study sets itself the task not so much of developing the views hither-to expressed on the mechanisms of the transitional response, but of contributing to
their systematization and dissemination.