The Stasi: Myth and Reality

ISBN-13: 9780582414228 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 288 str.

Mike Dennis; Norman Laporte

Opis

The Stasi were a central institution of the GDR. This book serves as a study of the powerful and much-feared East German Ministry of State Security from its establishment in 1950 to its fall in 1990. It illuminates the nature and operation of the entire East German regime, addressing one of the important topics in modern German history.

Spis treści

Introduction.  I. THE ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE EAST GERMAN SECURITY SERVICE, 1945-71.  1.From Weimar Republic to GDR.  2.The Ministry of State Security, 1950-71.  II. THE SWORD AND THE COMPASS.  3. The party and its Sword.  4. The Security Colossus.  5.Political Justice in Dictatorship.  III. THE FIRM AND ITS SERVANTS.  6. Serving the Cause - the Officer Class.  7. Mielke's Unofficial Collaborators.  IV. HUNTING FOR THE ENEMY.  8.Monitor and firefighter.

O autorze

Mike Dennis is Professor of Modern History at the University of Wolverhampton. Among his main publications are The German Democratic Republic; Social and Economic Modernization in Eastern Germany: From Honecker to Kohl and The Rise and Fall of the German Democratic Republic 1945-1990.