The history of the Stasi : East Germany's secret police, 1945-1990 / Jens Gieseke ; translated by David Burnett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gieseke, Jens.

Contributor:

Burnett, David.

Standardized Title:

Mielke-Konzern. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internal security--Germany (East)--History.

Internal security.

Secret service--Germany (East)--History.

Secret service.

Germany (East). Ministerium für Staatssicherheit--History.

Germany (East).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 t

Contents:

Antifascism, Stalinism, cold civil war : origins and influences, 1945 to 1956

The safest GDR in the world : the driving forces of Stasi growth

The unofficial collaborator : a new type of informer

Blanket surveillance? state security in East German society

Resistance, opposition, persecution

Wolf and Co. : MFS operations abroad

Final crisis and collapse, 1989-90

Legacy, aufarbeitung, culture of memory : the second life of the Stasi.

Notes:

Originally published under title: Mielke-Konzern. Stuttgart : Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781782382553

1782382550

OCLC:

869519868