1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463741703321

Autore

Gieseke Jens

Titolo

The history of the Stasi : East Germany's secret police, 1945-1990 / / Jens Gieseke ; translated by David Burnett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2014

ISBN

1-78238-255-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BurnettDavid

Disciplina

363.28/30943109045

Soggetti

Internal security - Germany (East) - History

Secret service - Germany (East) - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published under title: Mielke-Konzern. Stuttgart : Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2001.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910820436403321

Autore

Toswell M. J.

Titolo

Today's medieval university / / M. J. Toswell [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Kalamazoo : , : Arc Humanities Press, , 2016

ISBN

1-64189-902-6

1-942401-18-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 108 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Past imperfect

Disciplina

378.001

Soggetti

Education, Higher - Philosophy

Medievalism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Jan 2021).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Liturgy and ritual -- Structure -- Curriculum.

Sommario/riassunto

Just how medieval is the modern university? From their medieval beginnings in Western Europe, universities have remained monolithic and static entities, renovating themselves just enough to avoid massive interventions by the state or the church. Like parliamentary democracies, they function just well enough that while feelings of despair are frequent, and anticipation of imminent collapse constant, they continue. In the modern era, as universities face a new set of challenges, this book asks if there is not some value in pondering the medieval university, and the continuities that exist as much as do the fractures.