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- Book Title
- The History of the Stasi
- Publication Name
- History of the Stasi : East Germany's Secret Police, 1945-1990
- Title
- The History of the Stasi
- Subtitle
- East Germany's Secret Police, 1945-1990
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1785330241
- EAN
- 9781785330247
- ISBN
- 9781785330247
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated
- Genre
- Law & Politics
- Topic
- History
- Release Date
- 01/09/2015
- Release Year
- 2015
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 229mm
- Item Length
- 9in
- Item Weight
- 13.3 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Width
- 6in
- Number of Pages
- 268 Pages
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"Gieseke treats... many issues with careful and lucid analysis, confining himself to the known facts. He rejects the hyperbolic in favor of more mundane explanations. The truth is bad enough... Essential." - Choice "The book is an exceptional achievement in every respect: it offers a calm, detached, factual and well balanced socio-historical analysis of the MfS (Ministry for Security) that covers all aspects." - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung " This book] provides an excellent introduction to the chronology, structure, and activities of the MfS." - Kritika. Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History The East German Ministry for State Security 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 and has already been translated into a number of Eastern European languages. Jens Gieseke is head of the "Communism and Society" research department at the Centre for Contemporary History in Potsdam, Germany. He previously worked for fifteen years in the research division of the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records in Berlin. He co-edited Staatssicherheit und Gesellschaft (G ttingen, 2007); Handbuch der kommunistischen Geheimdienste in Osteuropa (G ttingen, 2008); and Die Geschichte der SED (Berlin, 2011).
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Publisher
Berghahn Books, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1785330241
ISBN-13
9781785330247
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219692775
Product Key Features
Publication Name
History of the Stasi : East Germany's Secret Police, 1945-1990
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
268 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
13.3 Oz
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Hv8210.5.A2 G53513 2
Reviews
"Gieseke treats... many issues with careful and lucid analysis, confining himself to the known facts. He rejects the hyperbolic in favor of more mundane explanations. The truth is bad enough... Essential." · Choice "The book is an exceptional achievement in every respect: it offers a calm, detached, factual and well balanced socio-historical analysis of the MfS (Ministry for Security) that covers all aspects." · Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung "[This book] provides an excellent introduction to the chronology, structure, and activities of the MfS." · Kritika. Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History "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...More than any other written on the MfS, his is a work of real scholarship which attempts a comprehensive history of the Ministry and its operations and assesses their development and significance." · German History "Gieseke's opus magnum belongs to one of the greatest scholarly achievements [in this field]." · Militägeschichtliche Zeitschrift "Not only does Gieseke's book deserve the widest possible audience in Germany, but an English translation would fill a glaring need elsewhere in the world." · H-German "Gieseke has with this book produced an outstanding study of the phenomenon of state security of the GDR with all its important aspects. It is highly recommended to specialists as well as a wider readership." · H-Soz-u-Kult, "Gieseke treats... many issues with careful and lucid analysis, confining himself to the known facts. He rejects the hyperbolic in favor of more mundane explanations. The truth is bad enough... Essential." * Choice "The book is an exceptional achievement in every respect: it offers a calm, detached, factual and well balanced socio-historical analysis of the MfS (Ministry for Security) that covers all aspects." * Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung "[This book] provides an excellent introduction to the chronology, structure, and activities of the MfS." * Kritika. Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History "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...More than any other written on the MfS, his is a work of real scholarship which attempts a comprehensive history of the Ministry and its operations and assesses their development and significance." * German History "Gieseke's opus magnum belongs to one of the greatest scholarly achievements [in this field]." * Militgeschichtliche Zeitschrift "Not only does Gieseke's book deserve the widest possible audience in Germany, but an English translation would fill a glaring need elsewhere in the world." * H-German "Gieseke has with this book produced an outstanding study of the phenomenon of state security of the GDR with all its important aspects. It is highly recommended to specialists as well as a wider readership." * H-Soz-u-Kult, "Gieseke treats... many issues with careful and lucid analysis, confining himself to the known facts. He rejects the hyperbolic in favor of more mundane explanations. The truth is bad enough... Essential." Choice "The book is an exceptional achievement in every respect: it offers a calm, detached, factual and well balanced socio-historical analysis of the MfS (Ministry for Security) that covers all aspects." Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung "[This book] provides an excellent introduction to the chronology, structure, and activities of the MfS." Kritika. Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History "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...More than any other written on the MfS, his is a work of real scholarship which attempts a comprehensive history of the Ministry and its operations and assesses their development and significance." German History "Gieseke's opus magnum belongs to one of the greatest scholarly achievements [in this field]." Militgeschichtliche Zeitschrift "Not only does Gieseke's book deserve the widest possible audience in Germany, but an English translation would fill a glaring need elsewhere in the world." H-German "Gieseke has with this book produced an outstanding study of the phenomenon of state security of the GDR with all its important aspects. It is highly recommended to specialists as well as a wider readership." H-Soz-u-Kult, "Gieseke treats... many issues with careful and lucid analysis, confining himself to the known facts. He rejects the hyperbolic in favor of more mundane explanations. The truth is bad enough... Essential."Choice "The book is an exceptional achievement in every respect: it offers a calm, detached, factual and well balanced socio-historical analysis of the MfS (Ministry for Security) that covers all aspects."Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung "[This book] provides an excellent introduction to the chronology, structure, and activities of the MfS."Kritika. Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History "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...More than any other written on the MfS, his is a work of real scholarship which attempts a comprehensive history of the Ministry and its operations and assesses their development and significance."German History "Gieseke's opus magnum belongs to one of the greatest scholarly achievements [in this field]."Militgeschichtliche Zeitschrift "Not only does Gieseke's book deserve the widest possible audience in Germany, but an English translation would fill a glaring need elsewhere in the world."H-German "Gieseke has with this book produced an outstanding study of the phenomenon of state security of the GDR with all its important aspects. It is highly recommended to specialists as well as a wider readership."H-Soz-u-Kult, "Gieseke treats... many issues with careful and lucid analysis, confining himself to the known facts. He rejects the hyperbolic in favor of more mundane explanations. The truth is bad enough... Essential." Choice "The book is an exceptional achievement in every respect: it offers a calm, detached, factual and well balanced socio-historical analysis of the MfS (Ministry for Security) that covers all aspects." Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung "[This book] provides an excellent introduction to the chronology, structure, and activities of the MfS." Kritika. Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History "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...More than any other written on the MfS, his is a work of real scholarship which attempts a comprehensive history of the Ministry and its operations and assesses their development and significance." German History "Gieseke's opus magnum belongs to one of the greatest scholarly achievements [in this field]." Militgeschichtliche Zeitschrift "Not only does Gieseke's book deserve the widest possible audience in Germany, but an English translation would fill a glaring need elsewhere in the world." H-German "Gieseke has with this book produced an outstanding study of the phenomenon of state security of the GDR with all its important aspects. It is highly recommended to specialists as well as a wider readership." H-Soz-u-Kult, "Gieseke treats... many issues with careful and lucid analysis, confining himself to the known facts. He rejects the hyperbolic in favor of more mundane explanations. The truth is bad enough... Essential." · Choice "The book is an exceptional achievement in every respect: it offers a calm, detached, factual and well balanced socio-historical analysis of the MfS (Ministry for Security) that covers all aspects." · Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung "[This book] provides an excellent introduction to the chronology, structure, and activities of the MfS." · Kritika. Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History "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...More than any other written on the MfS, his is a work of real scholarship which attempts a comprehensive history of the Ministry and its operations and assesses their development and significance." · German History "Gieseke's opus magnum belongs to one of the greatest scholarly achievements [in this field]." · Militageschichtliche Zeitschrift "Not only does Gieseke's book deserve the widest possible audience in Germany, but an English translation would fill a glaring need elsewhere in the world." · H-German "Gieseke has with this book produced an outstanding study of the phenomenon of state security of the GDR with all its important aspects. It is highly recommended to specialists as well as a wider readership." · H-Soz-u-Kult
Table of Content
Preface Preface to the 2011 edition Introduction: Ten Years and Ten Days Chapter 1. Antifascism - Stalinism - Cold Civil War: Origins and Influences, 1945 to 1956 Chapter 2. The Safest GDR in the World - The Driving Forces of Stasi Growth Chapter 3. The Unofficial Collaborator - A New Type of Informer Chapter 4. Blanket Surveillance? State Security in East German Society Chapter 5. Resistance - Opposition - Persecution Chapter 6. Wolf and Co. - MfS Operations Abroad Chapter 7. Final Crisis and Collapse, 1989-90 Chapter 8. Legacy - Aufarbeitung - Culture of Memory: The Second Life of the Stasi Notes Select Bibliography
Copyright Date
2015
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Europe / Germany, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Modern / 20th Century, Security (National & International)
Dewey Decimal
363.2830943109045
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
History, Political Science
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