02873nam 2200565 450 991080858760332120230803215249.0963-386-049-0963-386-051-210.1515/9789633860519(CKB)4100000007803161(OCoLC)873807555(MdBmJHUP)muse32874(MiAaPQ)EBC3137369(Au-PeEL)EBL3137369(CaPaEBR)ebr10848731(DE-B1597)633578(DE-B1597)9789633860519(OCoLC)1338019926(EXLCZ)99410000000780316120140325h20142014 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSecrets and truths ethnography in the archive of Romania's secret police /Katherine VerderyBudapest, Hungary :Central European University Press,2014.©20141 online resourceNatalie Zemon Davis Annual Lectures615-5225-99-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.An archive and its fictions -- The secrets of a secret police -- Knowledge practices and the social relations of surveillance.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, as well as her personal memories, 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.Natalie Zemon Davis annual lecture series.Secret serviceRomaniaHistoryPolitical persecutionRomaniaHistory20th century, Ethnography, History, Political persecution, Romania, Secret service.Secret serviceHistory.Political persecutionHistory.363.28/309498Verdery Katherine1948-513110MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808587603321Secrets and truths4116065UNINA