Ethnography in the archive of Romania’s Secret Police, the Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lecture Series, vol. 7, by Katherine Verdery, Secrets and Truths, Budapest, CEU Press, 2014, 289 pp., $24.95/€21.95/£18.99, ISBN 978-615-5225-99-4

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Notes

¹ Katherine Verdery, What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next? (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996).

² Timothy Garton Ash, The File. A Personal History (London: HarperCollins, 1997).

³ Mikhail M. Bakhtin, Michael Holquist (eds.), The Dialogic Imagination. Four Essays (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981).

⁴ Katherine Verdery, Secrets and Truths. Knowledge Practices of the Romanian Secret Police (Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2012), 28.

⁵ Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish. The Birth of the Prison (London: Allen Lane, 1977); Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction. A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984); Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1951).

⁶ For instance, Dennis Deletant, Ceauşescu and the Securitate. Coercion and Dissent in Romania, 1965–1989 (London: Hurst, 1995).

⁷ Andreas Glaeser, Political Epistemics. The Secret Police, the Opposition, and the End of East German Socialism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011).