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Secrets and truths : ethnography in the archive of Romania's secret police /

Nothing in Soviet-style communism was as shrouded in mystery as its secret police. Its paid employees were known to few and their actual numbers remain uncertain. Its informers and collaborators operated clandestinely under pseudonyms and met their officers in secret locations. Its files were inacce...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Verdery, Katherine, 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Budapest : Central European University Press, 2014.
Colección:Natalie Zemon Davis annual lecture series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Nothing in Soviet-style communism was as shrouded in mystery as its secret police. Its paid employees were known to few and their actual numbers remain uncertain. Its informers and collaborators operated clandestinely under pseudonyms and met their officers in secret locations. Its files were inaccessible, even to most party members. The people the secret police recruited or interrogated were threatened so effectively that some never told even their spouses, and many have held their tongues to this day, long after the regimes fell. With the end of communism, many of the newly established governments--among them Romania's--opened their secret police archives. From those files, as well as her personal memories, the author has carried out historical ethnography of the Romanian Securitate. Secrets and Truths is not only of historical interest but has implications for understanding the rapidly developing "security state" of the neoliberal present
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789633860519
9633860512
9633860490
9789633860496