Retroactive Justice - Prehistory of Post-Communism (Hardcover, New)

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. Cultural Memory in the Present

General

Imprint:	Stanford University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Cultural Memory in the Present
Release date:	2005
First published:	2005
Authors:	Istvan Rev
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth / Cloth
Pages:	360
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-8047-3642-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > Theory & methods > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Marxism & Communism Books > History > Theory & methods > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8047-3642-1
Barcode:	9780804736428

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