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State of Secrecy - Stasi Informers and the Culture of Surveillance (Hardcover)
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State of Secrecy - Stasi Informers and the Culture of Surveillance (Hardcover)
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Secret police agencies such as the East German Ministry for State
Security kept enormous quantities of secrets about their own
citizens, relying heavily on human forms of data collection in the
form of informants. To date little is known about the complicated
and conflicted lives of informers, who often lived in a perpetual
state of secrecy. This is the first study of its kind to explore
this secret surveillance society, its arcane rituals, and the
secret lives it fostered. Through a series of interlocking,
in-depth case studies of informers in literature and the arts, A
State of Secrecy seeks answers to the question of how the collusion
of the East German intelligentsia with the Stasi was possible and
sustainable. It draws on extensive original archive research
conducted in the BStU (Stasi Records Agency), as well as eyewitness
testimony, literature, and film, and uses a broad array of methods
from biography and life writing, sociology, cultural studies,
cultural and literary history to political science, surveillance,
and intelligence studies. In teasing out the various kinds of
entanglements of intellectuals with power during the Cold War, it
presents a microhistory of the covert activities of those writers
who colluded with the secret police.
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