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Autore |
Gieseke Jens |
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The history of the Stasi : East Germany's secret police, 1945-1990 / / Jens Gieseke ; translated by David Burnett |
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New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (277 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Internal security - Germany (East) - History |
Secret service - Germany (East) - History |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Originally published under title: Mielke-Konzern. Stuttgart : Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2001. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Antifascism, Stalinism, cold civil war : origins and influences, 1945 to 1956 -- The safest GDR in the world : the driving forces of Stasi growth -- The unofficial collaborator : a new type of informer -- Blanket surveillance? state security in East German society -- Resistance, opposition, persecution -- Wolf and Co. : MFS operations abroad -- Final crisis and collapse, 1989-90 -- Legacy, aufarbeitung, culture of memory : the second life of the Stasi. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The East German Ministry for State Security stood for Stalinist oppression and all-encompassing surveillance. The "shield and sword of the party," it secured the rule of the Communist Party for more than forty years, and by the 1980s it had become the largest secret-police apparatus in the world, per capita. Jens Gieseke tells the story of the Stasi, a feared secret-police force and a highly professional intelligence service. He inquires into the mechanisms of dictatorship and the day-to-day effects of surveillance and suspicion. Masterful and thorough at once, he takes the reader through t |
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