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024 7 _a10.1515/9781782382553
_2doi
035 _a(DE-B1597)9781782382553
035 _a(DE-B1597)637140
035 _a(OCoLC)873805557
040 _aDE-B1597
_beng
_cDE-B1597
_erda
072 7 _aHIS014000
_2bisacsh
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aGieseke, Jens
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe History of the Stasi :
_bEast Germany's Secret Police, 1945-1990 /
_cJens Gieseke.
264 1 _aNew York ;
_aOxford :
_bBerghahn Books,
_c[2014]
264 4 _c©2014
300 _a1 online resource (268 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tList of Abbreviations --
_tIntroduction. Ten Years and Forty-five Days --
_tChapter 1. Antifascism—Stalinism—Cold Civil War: Origins and Influences, 1945 to 1956 --
_tChapter 2. The Safest GDR in the World: The Driving Forces of Stasi Growth --
_tChapter 3. The Unofficial Collaborator: A New Type of Informer --
_tChapter 4. Blanket Surveillance? State Security in East German Society --
_tChapter 5. Resistance—Opposition—Persecution --
_tChapter 6. Wolf and Co.: MfS Operations Abroad --
_tChapter 7. Final Crisis and Collapse, 1989–90 --
_tChapter 8. Legacy—Aufarbeitung—Culture of Memory: The Second Life of the Stasi --
_tAppendices --
_tNotes --
_tSelected Bibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
_fonline access with authorization
_2star
520 _aA well-balanced and detailed look at the East German Ministry for State Security, the secret police force more commonly known as the Stasi. “This is an excellent book, full of careful, balanced judgements and a wealth of concisely-communicated knowledge. It is also well written. Indeed, it is the best book yet published on the MfS.”—German History The Stasi 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 this dark chapter of German postwar history, supplying key information on perpetrators, informers, and victims. In an assessment of post-communist memory politics, he critically discusses the consequences of opening the files and the outcomes of the Stasi debate in reunified Germany. A major guide for research on communist secret-police forces, this book is considered the standard reference work on the Stasi.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)
650 0 _aInternal security
_zGermany (East)
_xHistory.
650 0 _aSecret service
_zGermany (East)
_xHistory.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Europe / Germany.
_2bisacsh
653 _aGDR.
653 _aGerman Democratic Republic.
653 _aGerman history.
653 _aGermany.
653 _acold war history.
653 _acold war.
653 _acommunism.
653 _acommunist state.
653 _aeast berlin.
653 _aeast germany.
653 _asecret police.
653 _asocialist state.
653 _astasi.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9781782382553
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781782382553
856 4 2 _3Cover
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