Description: New essays exploring the tension between the versions of the past in secret police files and the subjects' own personal memories-and creative workings-through-of events.
Brief description: VALENTINA GLAJAR is Professor of German at Texas State University.
Review Quotes: Well researched and engagingly written . . . provides the reader with a wealth of sources and personal accounts of secret police influence, intervention, and collusion. . . A fascinating account of personal reflection, blackmail, and bribery taken from the existing files of East Germany, Hungary and Romania.-- "JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY HISTORY"