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This volume examines intelligence services since 1945 in their role
as knowledge producers. Intelligence agencies are producers and
providers of arcane information. However, little is known about the
social, cultural and material dimensions of their knowledge
production, processing and distribution. This volume starts from
the assumption that during the Cold War, these core activities of
information services underwent decisive changes, of which
scientization and computerisation are essential. With a focus on
the emerging alliances between intelligence agencies, science and
(computer) technology, the chapters empirically explore these
transformations and are characterised by innovative combinations of
intelligence history with theoretical considerations from the
history of science and technology and the history of knowledge. At
the same time, the book challenges the bipolarity of Cold War
history in general and of intelligence history in particular in
favour of comparative and transnational perspectives. The focus is
not only the Soviet Union and the United States, but also Poland,
Turkey, the two German states and Brazil. This approach reveals
surprising commonalities across systems: time and again, the
expansion and use of intelligence knowledge came up against the
limits that resulted from intelligence culture itself. The book
enriches our global understanding of knowledge of the state and
contributes to a historical framework for the past decade of
debates about the societal consequences of intelligence data
processing. This book will be of much interest to students of
intelligence studies, science and technology studies, security
studies and International Relations.
Everyday life in the East German Socialist Unity Party revolved
heavily around maintaining the “party line” in all areas of
society, whether through direct authority or corruption. Spanning a
long period of the GDR’s history, from 1946 through 1989,
Rüdiger Bergien presents the first study that examines the
complexities of the central party’s communist apparatus. He
focuses on their role as ideological watchdogs, as they fostered an
underbelly and “inner life” for their employees to integrate
the party’s pillars throughout East German society. Inside Party
Headquarters reviews not only the party’s modes power and state
interaction, but also the processes of negotiation and disputation
preceding formal Politburo decisions, advancing the available
detail and discourse surrounding this formative and volatile
stretch of German history.
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