LEADER 02873nam 2200565 450 001 9910808587603321 005 20230803215249.0 010 $a963-386-049-0 010 $a963-386-051-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9789633860519 035 $a(CKB)4100000007803161 035 $a(OCoLC)873807555 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse32874 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3137369 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3137369 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10848731 035 $a(DE-B1597)633578 035 $a(DE-B1597)9789633860519 035 $a(OCoLC)1338019926 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007803161 100 $a20140325h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSecrets and truths $eethnography in the archive of Romania's secret police /$fKatherine Verdery 210 1$aBudapest, Hungary :$cCentral European University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource 225 1 $aNatalie Zemon Davis Annual Lectures 311 $a615-5225-99-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAn archive and its fictions -- The secrets of a secret police -- Knowledge practices and the social relations of surveillance. 330 $aNothing in Soviet-style communism was as shrouded in mystery as its secret police. Its paid employees were known to few and their actual numbers remain uncertain. Its informers and collaborators operated clandestinely under pseudonyms and met their officers in secret locations. Its files were inaccessible, even to most party members. The people the secret police recruited or interrogated were threatened so effectively that some never told even their spouses, and many have held their tongues to this day, long after the regimes fell.With the end of communism, many of the newly established governments?among them Romania's?opened their secret police archives. From those files, as well as her personal memories, the author has carried out historical ethnography of the Romanian Securitate. Secrets and Truths is not only of historical interest but has implications for understanding the rapidly developing "security state" of the neoliberal present. 410 0$aNatalie Zemon Davis annual lecture series. 606 $aSecret service$zRomania$xHistory 606 $aPolitical persecution$zRomania$xHistory 610 $a20th century, Ethnography, History, Political persecution, Romania, Secret service. 615 0$aSecret service$xHistory. 615 0$aPolitical persecution$xHistory. 676 $a363.28/309498 700 $aVerdery$b Katherine$f1948-$0513110 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808587603321 996 $aSecrets and truths$94116065 997 $aUNINA