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The Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lectures Series-Ceu Press Ser.: Secrets and Truths : Ethnography in the Archive of Romania's Secret Police by Katherine Verdery (2014, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherCentral European University Press

ISBN-106155225990

ISBN-139786155225994

eBay Product ID (ePID)175785198

Product Key Features

Number of Pages310 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameSecrets and Truths : Ethnography in the Archive of Romania's Secret Police

Publication Year2014

SubjectEurope / Eastern, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Civil Rights, Modern / 20th Century, Europe / General

TypeTextbook

AuthorKatherine Verdery

Subject AreaPolitical Science, History

SeriesThe Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lectures Series-Ceu Press Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight12 Oz

Item Length7.9 in

Item Width5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2013-029653

Dewey Edition23

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal363.28/309498

Table Of ContentList 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

SynopsisNothing 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.

LC Classification NumberHV8241.8.A45S439