Summary of a State of Secrecy: Stasi Informers and the Culture of Surveillance by Alison Lewis
- ISBN-10
- ISBN-13
- 9798753666000
- Pages
- 25
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-10-25
- Author
- James BADEN
Description
DISCLAIMER This is a well detailed summary, Analysis and Short Guide of the book "A STATE OF SECRECY", written By Alison Lewis. This Publication doesn't in any way replace the main book written by the Author but to help readers get a super break down of what was written in the whole book to save time. In This Professional Summary, Short Read, Analysis And Review Written By Renowned Critic And Review Expert "James Baden" as He Employs Simple And Straightforward Language To Give Readers Great Insight For Better Understanding. This Short read is break down by looking in depth of what happen in each chapter in a sequential order that are perfectly arranged Excerpts From The Main Book: Secret police agencies such as the East German Ministry for State Security kept enormous quantities of secrets about their own citizens, relying heavily on human modes of data collection in the form of informants. To date little is known about the complicated and conflicted lives of informers, who often lived in a perpetual state of secrecy. This is the first study of its kind to explore this secret surveillance society, its arcane rituals, and the secret lives it fostered. Through a series of interlocking, in-depth case studies of informers in literature and the arts, A State of Secrecy seeks answers to the question of how the collusion of the East German intelligentsia with the Stasi was possible and sustainable. It draws on extensive original archive research conducted in the BStU (Stasi Records Agency), as well as eyewitness testimony, literature, and film, and uses a broad array of methods from biography, sociology, cultural studies, and literary history to political science and surveillance and intelligence studies. In teasing out the various kinds of entanglements of intellectuals with power during the Cold War, Lewis presents a micro history of the covert activities of those writers who colluded with the secret police. The details contained in this blockbuster insight, it cannot be found in any other review of Alison Lewis's masterpiece!
