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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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022] ©2014 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | The Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lectures Series
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (310 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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