The History of the Stasi : : East Germany's Secret Police, 1945-1990 / / Jens Gieseke.
A well-balanced and detailed look at the East German Ministry for State Security, the secret police force more commonly known as the Stasi. “This is an excellent book, full of careful, balanced judgements and a wealth of concisely-communicated knowledge. It is also well written. Indeed, it is the be...
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Gieseke, Jens, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The History of the Stasi : East Germany's Secret Police, 1945-1990 / Jens Gieseke. New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource (268 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction. Ten Years and Forty-five Days -- Chapter 1. Antifascism—Stalinism—Cold Civil War: Origins and Influences, 1945 to 1956 -- Chapter 2. The Safest GDR in the World: The Driving Forces of Stasi Growth -- Chapter 3. The Unofficial Collaborator: A New Type of Informer -- Chapter 4. Blanket Surveillance? State Security in East German Society -- Chapter 5. Resistance—Opposition—Persecution -- Chapter 6. Wolf and Co.: MfS Operations Abroad -- Chapter 7. Final Crisis and Collapse, 1989–90 -- Chapter 8. Legacy—Aufarbeitung—Culture of Memory: The Second Life of the Stasi -- Appendices -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star A well-balanced and detailed look at the East German Ministry for State Security, the secret police force more commonly known as the Stasi. “This is an excellent book, full of careful, balanced judgements and a wealth of concisely-communicated knowledge. It is also well written. Indeed, it is the best book yet published on the MfS.”—German History The Stasi 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 in the world, per capita. Jens Gieseke tells the story of the Stasi, a feared secret-police force and a highly professional intelligence service. He inquires into the mechanisms of dictatorship and the day-to-day effects of surveillance and suspicion. Masterful and thorough at once, he takes the reader through this dark chapter of German postwar history, supplying key information on perpetrators, informers, and victims. In an assessment of post-communist memory politics, he critically discusses the consequences of opening the files and the outcomes of the Stasi debate in reunified Germany. A major guide for research on communist secret-police forces, this book is considered the standard reference work on the Stasi. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024) Internal security Germany (East) History. Secret service Germany (East) History. HISTORY / Europe / Germany. bisacsh GDR. German Democratic Republic. German history. Germany. cold war history. cold war. communism. communist state. east berlin. east germany. secret police. socialist state. stasi. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110998238 ZDB-23-BHBO print 9781782382546 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782382553 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781782382553 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781782382553/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction. Ten Years and Forty-five Days -- Chapter 1. Antifascism—Stalinism—Cold Civil War: Origins and Influences, 1945 to 1956 -- Chapter 2. The Safest GDR in the World: The Driving Forces of Stasi Growth -- Chapter 3. The Unofficial Collaborator: A New Type of Informer -- Chapter 4. Blanket Surveillance? State Security in East German Society -- Chapter 5. Resistance—Opposition—Persecution -- Chapter 6. Wolf and Co.: MfS Operations Abroad -- Chapter 7. Final Crisis and Collapse, 1989–90 -- Chapter 8. Legacy—Aufarbeitung—Culture of Memory: The Second Life of the Stasi -- Appendices -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
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