{"product_id":"retroactive-justice-prehistory-of-post-communism-9780804736442","title":"Retroactive Justice: Prehistory of Post-Communism","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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 \u003ci\u003eRetroactive Justice\u003c\/i\u003e covers, and the extremely focused analyses, provide an unexpected experience of writing and rewriting, visioning and revisioning history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e István Rév\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/18\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.04h x 6.12w x 0.46d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804736442\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIstvan Rév is Professor of History and Political Science, and Academic Director of the Open Society Archives at the Central European University in Budapest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40440977195123,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":39.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_8a258189-083d-4eb4-9d2f-b99de3919fdc.jpg?v=1663252868","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/retroactive-justice-prehistory-of-post-communism-9780804736442","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}