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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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Autore: Gieseke Jens Visualizza persona
Titolo: The history of the Stasi : East Germany's secret police, 1945-1990 / / Jens Gieseke ; translated by David Burnett Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (277 p.)
Disciplina: 363.28/30943109045
Soggetto topico: Internal security - Germany (East) - History
Secret service - Germany (East) - History
Soggetto non controllato: GDR
German Democratic Republic
German history
Germany
cold war history
cold war
communism
communist state
east berlin
east germany
secret police
socialist state
stasi
Altri autori: BurnettDavid  
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
Titolo autorizzato: The history of the Stasi  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-78238-255-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910787623103321
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