| Retroactive Justice: Prehistory of Post-Communism Contributor(s): Rév, István (Author) |
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ISBN: 0804736421 ISBN-13: 9780804736428 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2005 Annotation: "The book...examines key moments in 20th-century Hungarian history from oblique angles; how politically sensitive exhumations pluck the strings of contemporary nationalism; the significance of the banishment and revival of national holidays....One extraordinary chapter uses the creation of a ' Pantheon of the Working-Class Movement' in Budapest's Kerepesi Cemetery to write an intricately wrought history of political burials in Hungary and elsewhere."-- Chronicle of Higher Education" " This is a beautifully written book....Rev is remarkable for his capacity somehow to reconcile his own history with the analytical detachment of a scholar of great brilliance." -- London Review of Books |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Austria & Hungary |
| Dewey: 943.905 |
| LCCN: 2004021121 |
| Series: Cultural Memory in the Present |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.34" W x 9.36" (1.28 lbs) 360 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The book offers a vast panorama of Communism from the perspective of its collapse, and inspects the world beyond the fall in the distorting mirror of its imagined prehistory-providing in the process a perceptive analysis of a number of the fundamental issues of history writing. |