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
Main Author: Verdery, Katherine, 1948-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Budapest : Central European University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Rumänien > Ministerul de Interne
Romania. > Securitatea.
Wissensproduktion
Politische Verfolgung
Secret service.
Political persecution.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
Repression politique > Roumanie > Histoire.
Service secret > Roumanie > Histoire.
Political persecution > Romania > History.
Secret service > Romania > History.
Rumänien
Romania.
History.
Electronic books.
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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