TY - BOOK ID - 71482237 TI - The history of the Stasi PY - 2014 SN - 9781782382553 1782382550 9781306405973 1306405971 9781782382546 1782382542 PB - New York DB - UniCat KW - Internal security KW - Secret service KW - Security, Internal KW - Insurgency KW - Subversive activities KW - History. KW - Germany (East). KW - Germany (Democratic Republic, 1949- ). KW - Stasi KW - MfS KW - Staatssicherheitsdienst der DDR KW - Sûreté de l'Etat KW - Service secret KW - History KW - Histoire KW - GDR. KW - German Democratic Republic. KW - German history. KW - Germany. KW - cold war history. KW - cold war. KW - communism. KW - communist state. KW - east berlin. KW - east germany. KW - secret police. KW - socialist state. KW - stasi. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:71482237 AB - The East German Ministry for State Security stood for Stalinist oppression and all-encompassing surveillance. The "shield and sword of the party," it secured the rule of the Communist Party for more than forty years, and by the 1980s it had become the largest secret-police apparatus in the world, per capita. Jens Gieseke tells the story of the Stasi, a feared secret-police force and a highly professional intelligence service. He inquires into the mechanisms of dictatorship and the day-to-day effects of surveillance and suspicion. Masterful and thorough at once, he takes the reader through t ER -