Description: Secrets and Truths by Katherine Verdery Secrets and Truth offers a rare insiders look into Secret Polices actions in Romania. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 Romanias - opened their secret police archives. From those files, especially her own voluminous one, as well as her personal memories and interviews with acquaintances that turned out be informers, 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. Author Biography Katherine Verdery is the Julien J. Studley Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the GraduateCenter, City University of New York 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 Details ISBN6155225990 Author Katherine Verdery Short Title SECRETS & TRUTHS Publisher Central European University Press Language English ISBN-10 6155225990 ISBN-13 9786155225994 Media Book Format Paperback Residence MI, US Illustrations Yes Subtitle Ethnography in the Archive of Romanias Secret Police Imprint Central European University Press Place of Publication Budapest Country of Publication Hungary Year 2014 Publication Date 2014-01-10 UK Release Date 2014-01-10 Pages 310 Alternative 9789633860519 DEWEY 363.28309498 Audience Professional & Vocational Series The Natalie Zemon Davis Memorial Lectures Series We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:139723143;
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