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

by Katherine Verdery

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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"

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