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- Secrets and Truths: Ethnography in the Archive of Romania's Secret Police
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Central European University Press
- Series: The Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lecture Ser
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Table of Contents
- pp. vii-viii
- List of Figures
- pp. ix-x
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xviii
- Note on Pronunciation
- pp. xix-xx
- Conclusion: The Radiant Future?
- pp. 213-254
- Bibliography
- pp. 255-270
Additional Information
ISBN
9789633860519
Related ISBN(s)
9786155225994, 9789633860496
MARC Record
OCLC
873807555
Pages
310
Launched on MUSE
2014-04-15
Language
English
Open Access
No