Description: Retroactive JusticePrehistory of Post-Communism Author(s): Istv?n R?v Format: Paperback Publisher: Stanford University Press, United States Imprint: Stanford University Press ISBN-13: 9780804736442, 978-0804736442 Synopsis This unorthodox scholarly work dissects the ghosts of history in order to analyze how the past?both recent and distant?haunts posterity, and in what ways the present disfigures the image of times gone by. The book presents a novel history of Communism from the perspective of its collapse, and inspects the world beyond the Fall in the distorting mirror of its imagined prehistory. Using a series of strange and darkly ironic stories, the subsequent chapters provide a close exploration of some of the essential objects of historical study: the name, the date, the dead, the relic, the pantheon, the court, the underworld, and the underground. The tension between vast distances, both in space and time, that Retroactive Justice covers, and the extremely focused analyses, provide an unexpected experience of writing and rewriting, visioning and revisioning history.
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Book Title: Retroactive Justice
Number of Pages: 360 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Retroactive Justice: Prehistory of Post-Communism
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication Year: 2005
Subject: History
Item Height: 229 mm
Item Weight: 476 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Istvan Rev
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Paperback
