Book review: my life as a spy: investigations in a secret police file by Katherine Verdery

Onaciu, Vlad (2018) Book review: my life as a spy: investigations in a secret police file by Katherine Verdery. LSE Review of Books (20 Nov 2018). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

In My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File, Katherine Verdery offers insight into the history of communism in Romania by exploring the surveillance file created on her by the Romanian secret police (the Securitate), analysing the documents produced through the operation and the role played by informers and officers. The book will help readers to better understand the process by which ‘enemies of the state’ were constructed as well as the intimate experience of confronting this history, finds Vlad Onaciu.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/
Additional Information:	© 2018 The Author(s)
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General)
Date Deposited:	22 Jun 2021 13:15
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 11:08
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/110905

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