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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Verdery, Katherine, 1948-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Budapest : Central European University Press, 2014.
Series:Natalie Zemon Davis annual lecture series.
Subjects:
Romania. > Securitatea.
Romania. > Securitatea
Rumänien > Ministerul de Interne
Secret service > Romania > History.
Political persecution > Romania > History.
Service secret > Roumanie > Histoire.
Répression politique > Roumanie > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism.
Political persecution
Secret service
Politische Verfolgung
Wissensproduktion
Romania
Rumänien
20th century, Ethnography, History, Political persecution, Romania, Secret service.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • An archive and its fictions
  • The secrets of a secret police
  • Knowledge practices and the social relations of surveillance.

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