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The history of the Stasi : East Germany's secret police, 1945-1990 /

"The East German Ministry for State Security stood for Stalinist oppression and all-encompassing surveillance. The 'shield and sword of the party, ' it secured the rule of the Communist Party for more than forty years, and by the 1980s it had become the largest secret-police apparatus...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gieseke, Jens (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Antifascism, Stalinism, cold civil war : origins and influences, 1945 to 1956
  • The safest GDR in the world : the driving forces of Stasi growth
  • The unofficial collaborator : a new type of informer
  • Blanket surveillance? State security in East German society
  • Resistance, opposition, persecution
  • Wolf and Co. : MFS operations abroad
  • Final crisis and collapse, 1989-90
  • Legacy, Aufarbeitung, culture of memory : the second life of the Stasi.