Reconstruction reconsidered: an examination of police philology. The case of László Rajk [Full text]

Authors

  • István Rév

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54359/ps.v2i5.979

Abstract

The paper aims at reconstructing the logic and working method(s) of the philological activities of the (secret) police; considering the text as real text in which exist the relationship of the different versions to the canon of the show trials. In article is examined both form and meaning of the police language; the changes of the concerns in the different layers of the texts; and argue for the futility to find the 'original' version.

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Author Biography

  • István Rév
    István Rév. Professor of History and Political Science, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, and Director of Open Society Archives. Research interests: Death and dying, historical recollection, the nature of historical evidence, and the changing nature of collecting analyzing and interpreting historical information. E-mail: revist@ceu.hu

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Published

2009-06-16

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 5 (2009)

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Rév, I. (2009). Reconstruction reconsidered: an examination of police philology. The case of László Rajk [Full text]. Psychological Studies, 2(5). https://doi.org/10.54359/ps.v2i5.979