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Secrets and Truths - Ethnography in the Archive of Romania's Secret Police (Paperback)
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Secrets and Truths - Ethnography in the Archive of Romania's Secret Police (Paperback)
Series: The Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lectures Series
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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, 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.
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