spiekermann uwe editor (6 resultados)

Trade paperback. Condición: Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. 192 pages. Includes List of Abbreviations. Footnotes. Preface and Acknowledgments, as well as an introduction on The Stasi and the HV A: Contemporary Research and Contemporary Resonance; The Context: America's Relationship with the GDR; The Stasi and East German Society; Participatory Repression? Reflections on Popular Involvement with the Stasi; The Stasi and East German Society: Some Remarks on Current Research; Between Myth and Reality: The Stasi Legacy in German History; The Socialist Unity Party (SED) and the Stasi: A Complex Relationship; The Stasi and the Party: From coordination to Alienation; Aspects of Crisis and Decline of the East German Foreign Intelligence in the 1980s; The Soviet Origins of East German Intelligence; and Cooperation between the HV A and the KGB, 1951-1989. The Ministry for State Security or State Security Service, commonly known as the Stasi was the official state security service of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany. It has been described as one of the most effective and repressive intelligence and secret police agencies ever to have existed. The Stasi was headquartered in East Berlin. The Stasi motto was Schild und Schwert der Partei (Shield and Sword of the Party), referring to the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany and also echoing a theme of the KGB, the Soviet counterpart and close partner, with respect to its own ruling party, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Erich Mielke was the Stasi's longest-serving chief, in power for thirty-two of the GDR's forty years of existence. The editor facilitated a seminar on the history of the Stasi at the University of Munster in 2012/13. The fifty participants at that seminar taught him that the history of the Stasi is an important tool that helps Westerners not only to understand the world of the former communist East but also to perceive current threats in the Western world. The Stasi combated open society and liberal democracy--yet a small and idealistic opposition group was able to overcome this large organization and its criminal activities. The article authors include: Robert Gerald Livingston, Gary Bruse, Jens Gieseke, Konrad Jarausch, Jefferson Adams, Douglas Selvage,George Herbstritt, Benjamin Fisher, and Paul Maddrell. Uwe Spiekermann studied modern history, political science and journalism at the University of Münster between 1983 and 1990. From 1990 to 1994 he was a research assistant in Münster on a research project on food history between 1880 and 1930. In 1996 he received his doctorate at the University of Münster at the Chair of Social and Economic History with the work Basis of the Consumer Society: Origin and Development of Modern Retail trade in Germany 1850 - 1914. From 1996 to 1997 he was a Research Fellow at the Department of Geography at the University of Exeter and then an employee of the Dr. Rainer Wild Foundation - Foundation for Healthy Nutrition in Heidelberg, where he was first a postdoctoral researcher, then a research assistant, and from 1998 to 2001 managing director. From 2001 to 2008, Spiekermann was a research assistant at the Institute for Economic and Social History at the Georg-August-University Göttingen, where he lived in 2008 and received the Venia legendi for Middle and Modern History at the end of 2008. From April 2008 to the end of September 2015, he was Deputy Director of the German Historical Institute in Washington. In the winter semester 2011/2012 he represented the professorship for German history of the 19th and 20th centuries at the University of Münster. From October 2015 to October 2016 he was a Max Weber Foundation Fellow at the University of Göttingen.

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