Jens GiesekeThe History of the Stasi
East Germany's Secret Police, 1945-1990
Jens Gieseke is head of the "Communism and Society" research department at the Centre for Contemporary History in Potsdam, Germany. He previously worked for fifteen years in the research division of the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records in Berlin. He co-edited Staatssicherheit und Gesellschaft (Göttingen, 2007); Handbuch der kommunistischen Geheimdienste in Osteuropa (Göttingen, 2008); and Die Geschichte der SED (Berlin, 2011).
Preface
Preface to the 2011 edition
Introduction: Ten Years and Ten Days
Chapter 1. Antifascism - Stalinism - Cold Civil War: Origins and
Influences, 1945 to 1956
Chapter 2. The Safest GDR in the World - The Driving Forces of Stasi Growth
Chapter 3. The Unofficial Collaborator - A New Type of Informer
Chapter 4. Blanket Surveillance? State Security in East German Society
Chapter 5. Resistance - Opposition - Persecution
Chapter 6. Wolf and Co. - MfS Operations Abroad
Chapter 7. Final Crisis and Collapse, 1989-90
Chapter 8. Legacy - Aufarbeitung - Culture of Memory: The Second Life of
the Stasi
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