„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.
Contents:
List of
Figures
Preface
and Acknowledgments
Note on
Pronunciation
Introduction:
What Was the Securitate?
Chapter 1.
An Archive and Its Fictions
Chapter 2.
The Secrets of a Secret Police
Chapter 3.
Knowledge Practices and the Social Relations of Surveillance
Conclusion:
The Radiant Future?
Bibliography
Index
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