Secrets and Truths: Ethnography in the Archive of Romania's Secret Police

by Katherine Verdery

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 6155225990
• ISBN13: 9786155225994
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Central European University Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.1" x 7.8"