Of Sources and Files
- Files produced by the secret police forces of former Eastern Bloc countries are complex documents, not completely reliable and yet not fully untrustworthy either—or as the British historian Timothy Garton Ash has remarked, “There is a truth that can be found [in a secret police file]. Not a single, absolute Truth with a capital T but still a real and important one” (2002, 282). As historical documents—texts anchored in a time and place and resulting from specific circumstances—files in general “supplement or rework ‘reality’” and are never “mere sources that divulge facts about ‘reality’” (LaCapra 1985, 11)
| Author details: | Corina L. PetrescuGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvhhhgcw.9 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-64012-200-0 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-64012-187-4 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Cold War spy stories from Eastern Europe |
| Subtitle (English): | The Making of the Securitate Target Ana Novac |
| Publisher: | University of Nebraska Press |
| Place of publishing: | Lincoln |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2019 |
| Publication year: | 2019 |
| Release date: | 2021/05/04 |
| Number of pages: | 23 |
| First page: | 137 |
| Last Page: | 159 |
| Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät / Institut für Germanistik |
| DDC classification: | 4 Sprache / 43 Deutsch, germanische Sprachen allgemein / 430 Germanische Sprachen; Deutsch |
