Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Glajar, Valentina; Petrescu, Corina L.; Lewis, Alison

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

During the Cold War, stories of espionage became popular on both sides of the Iron Curtain, capturing the imagination of readers and filmgoers alike as secret police quietly engaged in surveillance under the shroud of impenetrable secrecy. And curiously, in the post-Cold War period there are no signs of this enthusiasm diminishing. The opening of secret police archives in many Eastern European countries has provided the opportunity to excavate and narrate for the first time forgotten spy stories. Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe brings together a wide range of accounts compiled from the East German Stasi, the Romanian Securitate, and the Ukrainian KGB files. The stories are a complex amalgam of fact and fiction, history and imagination, past and present. These stories of collusion and complicity, betrayal and treason, right and wrong, and good and evil cast surprising new light on the question of Cold War certainties and divides. Purchase the audio edition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Potomac Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781640122000
• Artikelnr.: 72304784

Autorenporträt

Valentina Glajar is a professor of German and an honorary professor of international studies at Texas State University, San Marcos. She is the coeditor of Herta Müller: Politics and Aesthetics (Nebraska, 2013) and co-translator of Herta Müller’s novel Traveling on One Leg. Alison Lewis is a professor of German at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of several books, including one in German about love and gender in literature during Germany’s reunification and a book in German about the Stasi’s infiltration of the literary underground. Corina L. Petrescu is an associate professor of German at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of Against All Odds: Subversive Spaces in National Socialist Germany . Glajar, Lewis, and Petrescu recently coedited Secret Police Files from the Eastern Bloc: Between Surveillance and Life Writing.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Alison Lewis, Valentina Glajar, and Corina L. Petrescu
Part 1. Intelligence Officers and Informers
1. The File Story of the Securitate Officer Samuel Feld
Valentina Glajar
2. Man without a Face: The Autobiographical Self-Fashioning of Spymaster
Markus Wolf
Mary Beth Stein
3. The Stasi’s Secret War on Books: Uwe Berger and the Cold War Spy as
Informant and Book Reviewer
Alison Lewis
Part 2. Targets
4. Of Sources and Files: The Making of the Securitate Target Ana Novac
Corina L. Petrescu
5. Soviet Narratives of Subversion and Redemption during the Second Cold
War and Beyond: The Case of Father Dmitrii Dudko
Julie Fedor
Part 3. Secret East/West Operations
6. Espionage and Intimacy: West Berlin Turkish Men in the Stasi’s Eyes
Jennifer A. Miller
7. Fleeing to the West: The 1978 Airplane Hijacking from Gdansk to West
Berlin
Axel Hildebrandt
Part 4. Spies on Screen
8. Espionage and the Cold War in DEFA Films: Double Agents in For Eyes Only
and Chiffriert an Chef—Ausfall Nr. 5
Carol Anne Costabile-Heming
9. Breaking Borders: Niklaus Schilling’s Critical Spy Drama Der
Willi-Busch-Report
Lisa Haegele
10. Political Ambiguity in Recent Cold War Spy Stories on Screen
Cheryl Dueck
Contributors
Index