Secret Police Files from the Eastern Bloc: Between Surveillance and Life Writing

New essays exploring the tension between the versions of the past in secret police files and the subjects' own personal memories-and creative workings-through-of events.

The communist secret police services of Central and Eastern Europe kept detailed records not only of their victims but also of the vast networks of informants and collaborators upon whom their totalitarian systems depended. Theserecords, now open to the public in many former...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571139265
• ISBN13: 9781571139269
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"