My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File

by Katherine Verdery

Book Overview

As Katherine Verdery observes, "There's nothing like reading your secret police file to make you wonder who you really are." In 1973 Verdery began her doctoral fieldwork in the Transylvanian region of Romania, ruled at the time by communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. She returned several times over the next twenty-five years, during which time the secret police-the Securitate-compiled a massive surveillance file on her. Reading through its 2,781...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822370662
• ISBN13: 9780822370666
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"