Retroactive JusticeThis unorthodox scholarly work dissects the ghosts of history in order to analyze how the pastboth recent and distanthaunts 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