Secrets and Truths : : Ethnography in the Archive of Romania's Secret Police / / Katherine Verdery.
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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Verdery, Katherine, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Secrets and Truths : Ethnography in the Archive of Romania's Secret Police / Katherine Verdery. Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, [2022] ©2014 1 online resource (310 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda The Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lectures Series Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Note on Pronunciation -- Introduction: What Was the Securitate? -- Chapter 1. An Archive and Its Fictions -- Chapter 2. The Secrets of a Secret Police -- Chapter 3. Knowledge Practices and the Social Relations of Surveillance -- Conclusion: The Radiant Future? -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. 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 30. Aug 2022) POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism. bisacsh 20th century, Ethnography, History, Political persecution, Romania, Secret service. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110780543 https://doi.org/10.1515/9789633860519 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789633860519 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789633860519/original |
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