The first account of the secret police in Eastern Europe after 1989, this book uses a wide range of sources, including archives, to identify what has and has not changed since the end of Communism. After explaining the structure and workings of two of the area's most feared services, Czechoslovakia's StB and Romania's Securitate, the authors detail the creation of new security intelligence institutions, the development of contacts with the West, and forms of democratic control.
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This book will be of interest to those studying security intelligence agencies, both foreign and domestic and to students of the transition politics in central and east European countries. Slavic Review
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Kieran Williams is Lecturer at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London.
Dennis Deletant is Professor of Romanian Studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London.
Dennis Deletant is Professor of Romanian Studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London.
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Eastern Europe has completed a decade of revolutionary change. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
oversight organ, securitate officer, foreign intelligence directorate, informer network, security intelligence services, regional directorates, statutory footing, oversight commission, central directorates, parliamentary oversight, foreign espionage Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ministry of the Interior, Jaroslav Spurny, Czech Republic, Minister of the Interior, Radio Free Europe, Eastern Europe, Civil Forum, Evenimentul Zilei, Vadim Tudor, United States, West Germany, Soviet Union, Supreme Defence Council, East European, Third Directorate, Chamber of Deputies, Prague Spring, President Constantinescu, Security Intelligence Semites, Denni Telegraf, Ion Iliescu, Kieran Williams, Knihovna Parlamentu, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Petre Roman New!
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Eastern Europe has completed a decade of revolutionary change. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
oversight organ, securitate officer, foreign intelligence directorate, informer network, security intelligence services, regional directorates, statutory footing, oversight commission, central directorates, parliamentary oversight, foreign espionage Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ministry of the Interior, Jaroslav Spurny, Czech Republic, Minister of the Interior, Radio Free Europe, Eastern Europe, Civil Forum, Evenimentul Zilei, Vadim Tudor, United States, West Germany, Soviet Union, Supreme Defence Council, East European, Third Directorate, Chamber of Deputies, Prague Spring, President Constantinescu, Security Intelligence Semites, Denni Telegraf, Ion Iliescu, Kieran Williams, Knihovna Parlamentu, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Petre Roman New!
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- Policing Politics: Security Intelligence and the Liberal Democratic State (Studies in Intelligence) by Peter Gill on 4 pages
- Red Horizons: The True Story of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescus' Crimes, Lifestyle, and Corruption by Ion Mihai Pacepa on page 176, page 204, and Back Matter
- Terror and Communist Politics: The Role of the Secret Police in Communist States (A Westview special study) by Jonathan Adelman on page 44, page 261, and Back Matter
- Modernity and the Holocaust by Zygmunt Bauman on page 45, and page 261
- Political Terror in Communist Systems by Alexander Dallin on page 44, and page 261
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- Constraints And Opportunities of Leadership in Post-communist Europe by Timothy Haughton on page 23, page 98, and Back Matter
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