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200 14$aThe secret police and the revolution $ethe fall of the German Democratic Republic /$fEdward N. Peterson
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aWestport, Conn. $cPraeger$d2002
215   $a1 online resource (xiii, 286 pages)
300   $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
311 0 $a0-275-97328-X 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [271]-277) and index.
327   $aIntro -- Introduction -- 1. The Dark Clouds Forming: 1953-1979 -- The Problem-Filled Structure -- The Stasi as Shielding Umbrella -- 2. Distant Rumblings: 1980-1986 -- Schwerin -- Berlin -- 3. The Winds Rising: 1987 -- Schwerin -- Berlin -- 4. The Lightning Striking: 1988 -- Schwerin -- Berlin -- 5. The Storm Breaking: Spring 1989 -- Schwerin -- Berlin -- 6. The Ground Shaking: Fall 1989 -- Schwerin -- Berlin -- 7. The Shambles Remaining: Winter 1989-1990 -- The MfS on the Brink -- The MfS by Another Name -- The More Things Change in the Secret Police . . . -- The Whimpering End -- The Fading Away of Old Agents -- The Reports of Death Are Premature -- The Revolution Abandons Its Revolutionaries -- 8. What We Learn from the Secret Police -- What They Tell of Themselves -- Of the Enormity of the Public's Disaffection -- Of Discontents Like Those in the West -- The Accuracy of the Secret Police as Reporters and Analysts -- The Weaknesses of the Secret Police as Enforcers -- How Realities Defeated the Ideals -- The Secret Police as Dissidents -- The Secret Police as Rebels -- Bibliography -- Index.
606   $aIntelligence service$zGermany (East)
606   $aInternal security$zGermany (East)
606   $aOpposition (Political science)$zGermany (East)
607   $aGermany (East)$xPolitics and government
615  0$aIntelligence service
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700   $aPeterson$b Edward N$g(Edward Norman),$f1925-$01661699
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