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Author Verdery, Katherine, 1948-

Title Secrets and truths : ethnography in the archive of Romania's secret police / Katherine Verdery
Published Budapest : Central European University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource
Series Natalie Zemon Davis annual lecture series
Natalie Zemon Davis annual lecture series.
Contents An archive and its fictions -- The secrets of a secret police -- Knowledge practices and the social relations of surveillance
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
Analysis 20th century, Ethnography, History, Political persecution, Romania, Secret service
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Romania. Securitatea.
SUBJECT Romania. Securitatea fast
Rumänien Ministerul de Interne gnd
Subject Secret service -- Romania -- History
Political persecution -- Romania -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism.
Political persecution
Secret service
Politische Verfolgung
Wissensproduktion
Romania
Rumänien
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789633860519
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9633860490
9789633860496