Secrets and Truth: Ethnography in the Archive of Romania's

Secrets and Truth: Ethnography in the Archive of Romania's Secret Police

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 governmentsâ€•among them Romania'sâ€•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.

Country	USA
Author	Katherine Verdery
Binding	Paperback
EAN	9786155225994
Edition	Edition Unstated
ISBN	6155225990
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Label	Central European University Press
Manufacturer	Central European University Press
MPN	black & white illustrations, figures
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	432
PartNumber	black & white illustrations, figures
PublicationDate	2014-01-10
Publisher	Central European University Press
Studio	Central European University Press
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Secrets and Truth: Ethnography in the Archive of Romania's Secret Police