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New Books in Policing, Incarceration, and ReformValentina N. Glajar, "The Secret Police Dossier of Herta Müller: A "File Story" of Cold War Surveillance" (Camden House, 2023)"Herta Müller should share her Nobel with the Securitate." This comment by a former officer in the Romanian secret police, or Securitate, was in reaction to hearing that Müller, a German writer originally from Romania, had won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. Communist Romania's infamous secret police was indeed a protagonist in Müller's work, though an undesired and dreaded one: most of her writings are deeply and explicitly anchored in Ceaușescu's Romania and her own traumatic experiences with the Securitate. Müller's file traces her surveillance from 1983 until after she emigrated to West Germany in 1987. She h...2025-01-171h 36
New Books in Eastern European StudiesValentina N. Glajar, "The Secret Police Dossier of Herta Müller: A "File Story" of Cold War Surveillance" (Camden House, 2023)"Herta Müller should share her Nobel with the Securitate." This comment by a former officer in the Romanian secret police, or Securitate, was in reaction to hearing that Müller, a German writer originally from Romania, had won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. Communist Romania's infamous secret police was indeed a protagonist in Müller's work, though an undesired and dreaded one: most of her writings are deeply and explicitly anchored in Ceaușescu's Romania and her own traumatic experiences with the Securitate. Müller's file traces her surveillance from 1983 until after she emigrated to West Germany in 1987. She h...2025-01-171h 40
New Books in Literary StudiesValentina N. Glajar, "The Secret Police Dossier of Herta Müller: A "File Story" of Cold War Surveillance" (Camden House, 2023)"Herta Müller should share her Nobel with the Securitate." This comment by a former officer in the Romanian secret police, or Securitate, was in reaction to hearing that Müller, a German writer originally from Romania, had won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. Communist Romania's infamous secret police was indeed a protagonist in Müller's work, though an undesired and dreaded one: most of her writings are deeply and explicitly anchored in Ceaușescu's Romania and her own traumatic experiences with the Securitate. Müller's file traces her surveillance from 1983 until after she emigrated to West Germany in 1987. She h...2025-01-171h 40
New Books in German StudiesValentina N. Glajar, "The Secret Police Dossier of Herta Müller: A "File Story" of Cold War Surveillance" (Camden House, 2023)"Herta Müller should share her Nobel with the Securitate." This comment by a former officer in the Romanian secret police, or Securitate, was in reaction to hearing that Müller, a German writer originally from Romania, had won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. Communist Romania's infamous secret police was indeed a protagonist in Müller's work, though an undesired and dreaded one: most of her writings are deeply and explicitly anchored in Ceaușescu's Romania and her own traumatic experiences with the Securitate. Müller's file traces her surveillance from 1983 until after she emigrated to West Germany in 1987. She h...2025-01-171h 36
NBN Book of the DayValentina N. Glajar, "The Secret Police Dossier of Herta Müller: A "File Story" of Cold War Surveillance" (Camden House, 2023)"Herta Müller should share her Nobel with the Securitate." This comment by a former officer in the Romanian secret police, or Securitate, was in reaction to hearing that Müller, a German writer originally from Romania, had won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. Communist Romania's infamous secret police was indeed a protagonist in Müller's work, though an undesired and dreaded one: most of her writings are deeply and explicitly anchored in Ceaușescu's Romania and her own traumatic experiences with the Securitate. Müller's file traces her surveillance from 1983 until after she emigrated to West Germany in 1987. She h...2025-01-171h 40
New Books in Women's HistoryValentina N. Glajar, "The Secret Police Dossier of Herta Müller: A "File Story" of Cold War Surveillance" (Camden House, 2023)"Herta Müller should share her Nobel with the Securitate." This comment by a former officer in the Romanian secret police, or Securitate, was in reaction to hearing that Müller, a German writer originally from Romania, had won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. Communist Romania's infamous secret police was indeed a protagonist in Müller's work, though an undesired and dreaded one: most of her writings are deeply and explicitly anchored in Ceaușescu's Romania and her own traumatic experiences with the Securitate. Müller's file traces her surveillance from 1983 until after she emigrated to West Germany in 1987. She h...2025-01-171h 40
The Slavic ConnexionYou Only Need to Die: The Secret Police of East Germany and RomaniaOn this episode, Valentina Glajar and Alison Lewis share their personal stories and research on the history of East Germany's STASI and Romania's Securitate and the dismantling of these secret police forces. Thank you for listening!
You can listen to Douglas Selvage's episode here: https://www.slavx.org/listen/episode/b54c0fff/operation-denver-and-russias-disinformation-playbook-with-douglas-selvage
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Dr. Valentina Glajar is a professor of German at Texas State University. She is the author of a number of books, her latest coedited with Alison Lewis and Corina L. Petrescu, are Secret Police Files from the...2023-03-0736 min
Embrace This Ground-Breaking Full Audiobook — Perfect Before Bedtime.Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe by Corina L. Petrescu, Alison Lewis, Valentina GlajarPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/390998to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe
Author: Corina L. Petrescu, Alison Lewis, Valentina Glajar
Narrator: James Anderson Foster, Christa Lewis
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Length: 12 hours 36 minutes
Release date: August 1, 2019
Genres: Arts & Entertainment
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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 op...2019-08-0112h 36Indulge In The Transformative Full Audiobook Now, Busy Professionals!Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe by Corina L. Petrescu, Alison Lewis, Valentina GlajarPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/390998to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe
Author: Corina L. Petrescu, Alison Lewis, Valentina Glajar
Narrator: James Anderson Foster, Christa Lewis
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 12 hours 36 minutes
Release date: August 1, 2019
Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics
Publisher's Summary:
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 di...2019-08-0112h 36
Get Best Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Arts & EntertainmentCold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe by Corina L. Petrescu, Alison Lewis, Valentina GlajarPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/390998 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe Author: Corina L. Petrescu, Alison Lewis, Valentina Glajar Narrator: James Anderson Foster, Christa Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 36 minutes Release date: August 1, 2019 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: 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. Th...2019-08-0130 min
Download Latest Free Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsCold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe by Corina L. Petrescu, Alison Lewis, Valentina GlajarPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/390998 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe Author: Corina L. Petrescu, Alison Lewis, Valentina Glajar Narrator: James Anderson Foster, Christa Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 36 minutes Release date: August 1, 2019 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: 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 en...2019-08-0130 minDownload Latest Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsCold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe by Corina L. Petrescu, Alison Lewis, Valentina GlajarPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/390998to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe
Author: Corina L. Petrescu, Alison Lewis, Valentina Glajar
Narrator: James Anderson Foster, Christa Lewis
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 12 hours 36 minutes
Release date: August 1, 2019
Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics
Publisher's Summary:
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 di...2019-08-0112h 36