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Title Cold War spy stories from Eastern Europe / edited by Valentina Glajar, Alison Lewis, and Corina L. Petrescu
Published Lincoln : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2019]

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Contents The file story of the Securitate officer Samuel Feld / Valentina Glajar -- Man without a face : the autobiographical self-fashioning of spymaster Markus Wolf / Mary Beth Stein -- The Stasi's secret war on books : Uwe Berger and the Cold War spy as informant and book reviewer / Alison Lewis -- Soviet narratives of subversion and redemption during the second Cold War and beyond : the case of Father Dmitrii Dudko / Julie Fedor -- Of sources and files : the making of the Securitate target Ana Novac / Corina l. Petrescu -- Espionage and intimacy : West Berlin Turkish men in the Stasi's eyes / Jennifer A. Miller -- Fleeing to the West : the 1978 airplane hijacking from Gdansk to West Berlin / Axel hildebrandt -- Espionage and the Cold War in DEFA films : double agents in For Eyes Only (1963) and Chiffriert an Chef Ausfall Nr. 5 (1979) / Carol Anne Costabile-Heming -- Breaking borders : Niklaus Schilling's critical spy drama The Willi Busch Report / Lisa Haegele -- Political ambiguity in recent Cold War spy stories on screen / Cheryl Dueck
Summary "With the opening of the secret police archives in many countries in Eastern Europe comes the unique chance to excavate many forgotten spy stories and narrate them for the first time. 'Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe' brings together a wide range of Cold War spy stories from the Eastern Bloc and explores stories compiled from the East German Stasi, the Romanian Securitate, and the Ukrainian KGB files"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 06, 2019)
Subject Espionage -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century
Espionage -- Communist countries -- History
Spies -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century
Spies -- Europe, Eastern -- Biography
Cold War.
Espionage in literature.
Espionage in motion pictures.
Cold War in literature.
Cold War in motion pictures.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Intelligence & Espionage.
Cold War (1945-1989) in literature
Cold War (1945-1989) in motion pictures
Espionage
Espionage in literature
Espionage in motion pictures
Spies
SUBJECT Europe, Eastern -- History -- 1945-1989. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90001269
Subject Communist countries
Eastern Europe
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Glajar, Valentina, editor.
Lewis, Alison, 1958- editor.
Petrescu, Corina L., editor.
ISBN 9781640122000
1640122001
9781640121980
1640121986