Secrets and truths : ethnography in the archive of Romania's secret police / / Katherine Verdery

• Autore: Verdery Katherine <1948->
• Pubblicazione: Budapest, Hungary : , : Central European University Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 363.28/309498
• Soggetto topico: Secret service - Romania - History; Political persecution - Romania - History
• Soggetto non controllato: 20th century, Ethnography, History, Political persecution, Romania, Secret service
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: An archive and its fictions -- The secrets of a secret police -- Knowledge practices and the social relations of surveillance.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Secrets and truths
• ISBN: 963-386-049-0; 963-386-051-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808587603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Natalie Zemon Davis annual lecture series.