TY  - BOOK
AU  - Peterson,Edward
TI  - The Secret Police and the Revolution: The Fall of the German Democratic Republic
SN  - 9780313075414
AV  - DD289 -- .P46 2002eb 
U1  - 943/.10878 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - New York
PB  - Bloomsbury Publishing USA
KW  - Internal security -- Germany (East)
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Introduction -- 1. The Dark Clouds Forming: 1953-1979 -- The Problem-Filled Structure -- The Stasi as Shielding Umbrella -- 2. Distant Rumblings: 1980-1986 -- Schwerin -- Berlin -- 3. The Winds Rising: 1987 -- Schwerin -- Berlin -- 4. The Lightning Striking: 1988 -- Schwerin -- Berlin -- 5. The Storm Breaking: Spring 1989 -- Schwerin -- Berlin -- 6. The Ground Shaking: Fall 1989 -- Schwerin -- Berlin -- 7. The Shambles Remaining: Winter 1989-1990 -- The MfS on the Brink -- The MfS by Another Name -- The More Things Change in the Secret Police . . . -- The Whimpering End -- The Fading Away of Old Agents -- The Reports of Death Are Premature -- The Revolution Abandons Its Revolutionaries -- 8. What We Learn from the Secret Police -- What They Tell of Themselves -- Of the Enormity of the Public's Disaffection -- Of Discontents Like Those in the West -- The Accuracy of the Secret Police as Reporters and Analysts -- The Weaknesses of the Secret Police as Enforcers -- How Realities Defeated the Ideals -- The Secret Police as Dissidents -- The Secret Police as Rebels -- Bibliography -- Index
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