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Author : Sheena Chestnut Greitens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107139848
This book explores the secret police organizations of East Asian dictators: their origins, operations, and effects on ordinary citizens' lives.
Author : Paul Lewis,Rob Evans
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-25
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780571302185
'Undercover lays bare the deceit, betrayal and cold-blooded violation practised again and again by undercover police officers - troubling, timely and brilliantly executed.' Henry Porter The gripping stories of a group of police spies - written by the award-winning investigative journalists who exposed the Mark Kennedy scandal - and the uncovering of forty years of state espionage. This was an undercover operation so secret that some of our most senior police officers had no idea it existed. The job of the clandestine unit was to monitor British 'subversives' - environmental activists, anti-racist groups, animal rights campaigners. Police stole the identities of dead people to create fake passports, driving licences and bank accounts. They then went deep undercover for years, inventing whole new lives so that they could live incognito among the people they were spying on. They used sex, intimate relationships and drugs to build their credibility. They betrayed friends, deceived lovers, even fathered children. And their operations continue today. Undercover reveals the truth about secret police operations - the emotional turmoil, the psychological challenges and the human cost of a lifetime of deception - and asks whether such tactics can ever be justified.
Author : John O. Koehler
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786724413
In this gripping narrative, John Koehler details the widespread activities of East Germany's Ministry for State Security, or "Stasi." The Stasi, which infiltrated every walk of East German life, suppressed political opposition, and caused the imprisonment of hundreds of thousands of citizens, proved to be one of the most powerful secret police and espionage services in the world. Koehler methodically reviews the Stasi's activities within East Germany and overseas, including its programs for internal repression, international espionage, terrorism and terrorist training, art theft, and special operations in Latin America and Africa. Koehler was both Berlin bureau chief of the Associated Press during the height of the Cold War and a U.S. Army Intelligence officer. His insider's account is based on primary sources, such as U.S. intelligence files, Stasi documents made available only to the author, and extensive interviews with victims of political oppression, former Stasi officers, and West German government officials. Drawing from these sources, Koehler recounts tales that rival the most outlandish Hollywood spy thriller and, at the same time, offers the definitive contribution to our understanding of this still largely unwritten aspect of the history of the Cold War and modern Germany.
Author : Ronald Hingley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781000371352
This book, first published in 1970, is an important study of Russia’s security services from their earliest years to the mid-twentieth century. Ronald Hingley demonstrates how the secret police acted, both under the Tsars and under Soviet rule, as a key instrument of control exercised over all fields of Russian life by an outstandingly authoritarian state. He analyses the Tsarist Third Section and Okhrana and their role in countering Russian revolutionary groups, and examines the Soviet agencies as they assumed the roles of policeman, judge and executioner. This masterly evaluation of Russian and Soviet secret police makes extensive use of hard-to-find Russian documentary sources, and is the first such research that studies Russian political security (Muscovite, Imperial and Soviet) as a whole.
Author : James A. Kapaló,Kinga Povedák
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000426069
This book addresses the complex intersection of secret police operations and the formation of the religious underground in communist-era Eastern Europe. It discusses how religious groups were perceived as dangerous to the totalitarian state whilst also being extremely vulnerable and yet at the same time very resourceful. It explores how this particular dynamic created the concept of the "religious underground" and produced an extremely rich secret police archival record. In a series of studies from across the region, the book explores the historical and legal context of secret police entanglement with religious groups, presents case studies on particular anti-religious operations and groups, offers methodological approaches to the secret police materials for the study of religions, and engages in contemporary ethical and political debates on the legacy and meaning of the archives in post-communism.
Author : Molly Pucci
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Europe, Eastern
ISBN : 9780300242577
A compelling examination of the establishment of the secret police in Communist Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Eastern Germany This book examines the history of early secret police forces in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War. Molly Pucci delves into the ways their origins diverged from the original Soviet model based on differing interpretations of communism and local histories. She also illuminates the difference between veteran agents who fought in foreign wars and younger, more radical agents who combatted "enemies of communism" in the Stalinist terror in Eastern Europe.
Author : Cristina Vatulescu
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804775724
The documents emerging from the secret police archives of the former Soviet bloc have caused scandal after scandal, compromising revered cultural figures and abruptly ending political careers. Police Aesthetics offers a revealing and responsible approach to such materials. Taking advantage of the partial opening of the secret police archives in Russia and Romania, Vatulescu focuses on their most infamous holdings—the personal files—as well as on movies the police sponsored, scripted, or authored. Through the archives, she gains new insights into the writing of literature and raises new questions about the ethics of reading. She shows how police files and films influenced literature and cinema, from autobiographies to novels, from high-culture classics to avant-garde experiments and popular blockbusters. In so doing, she opens a fresh chapter in the heated debate about the relationship between culture and politics in twentieth-century police states.
Author : Katherine Verdery
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9786155225994
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,ÿmany ofÿtheÿnewly established governments?among them Romania?s?opened their secret police archives. From those files,ÿas well asÿher personal memories, the author has carried out historical ethnography of the Romanian Securitate.ÿSecrets and Truthsÿis not only of historical interest but has implications for understanding the rapidly developing ?security state? of the neoliberal present. ÿ
Author : Jens Gieseke
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782382553
A 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.
Author : Peter Benjaminson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105062251801
The most amazing & the least known law enforcement agency of New York City.
Author : Thomas Gordon Plate,Andrea Darvi
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015003963504
Author : Fredric S. Zuckerman
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1996-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814796733
Karakozov in 1866, Russian political life became trapped within a vicious circle of political reaction, growing disillusionment with the government and intensifying political dissent that increasingly manifested itself in acts of terrorism against Tsarist officials.
Author : Simon Wolin,Robert M. Slusser
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781040005316
The Soviet Secret Police (1957) depicts the main aspects of the development, structure and functions of the secret police of the Soviet Union. Much of the information contained within comes from the personal testimony of Soviet citizens who had experienced various activities of the secret police, and forms a full and objective study of the secret police and its role in the Soviet system.
Author : John Lang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : OXFORD:600021334
Author : Rupert Butler
Publisher : Amber Books Ltd
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782743514
Illustrated with more than 100 black-and-white photographs and expertly written, Stalin’s Secret Police is a chilling history of the Soviet secret police from 1917 to the fall of Communism.