1950s
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Author_Molly Pucci
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cold war
communism
communist control
communist states
czechoslovakia
domestic surveillance
east germany
eastern blok
eastern europe
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late 1940s
poland
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secret police
soviet model
stasi
warsaw pact
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- ISBN 9780300242577
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 11 Aug 2020
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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A compelling examination of the establishment of the secret police in Communist Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Eastern Germany
This book examines the history of early secret police forces in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War. Molly Pucci delves into the ways their origins diverged from the original Soviet model based on differing interpretations of communism and local histories. She also illuminates the difference between veteran agents who fought in foreign wars and younger, more radical agents who combatted “enemies of communism” in the Stalinist terror in Eastern Europe.
This book examines the history of early secret police forces in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War. Molly Pucci delves into the ways their origins diverged from the original Soviet model based on differing interpretations of communism and local histories. She also illuminates the difference between veteran agents who fought in foreign wars and younger, more radical agents who combatted “enemies of communism” in the Stalinist terror in Eastern Europe.
Molly Pucci is assistant professor of twentieth-century European history at Trinity College Dublin. She was a Max Weber postdoctoral fellow at the European University Institute. Her doctoral dissertation was awarded the Radomír Luža Prize in Central European History in 2015.
