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Can I read My Life as a Spy : Investigations in a Secret Police File on EtoBox?
My Life as a Spy : Investigations in a Secret Police File by Katherine Verdery is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
What is My Life as a Spy : Investigations in a Secret Police File about?
As Katherine Verdery observes, "There's nothing like reading your secret police file to make you wonder who you really are." In 1973 Verdery began her doctoral fieldwork in the Transylvanian region of Romania, ruled at the time by communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. She returned several times over the next twenty-five years, during which time the secret police—the Securitate—compiled a massive surveillance file on her. Reading through its 2,781 pages, she learned that she was "actually" a spy,
Who reads My Life as a Spy : Investigations in a Secret Police File?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Katherine Verdery
- Publisher
- Duke University Press Books
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780822370819
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- History, Political Science, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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