Cold War spy stories from Eastern Europe /edited by Valentina Glajar, Alison Lewis, and Corina L. Petrescu. - Lincoln : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies and index.

The file story of the Securitate officer Samuel Feld / Man without a face : the autobiographical self-fashioning of spymaster Markus Wolf / The Stasi's secret war on books : Uwe Berger and the Cold War spy as informant and book reviewer / Soviet narratives of subversion and redemption during the second Cold War and beyond : the case of Father Dmitrii Dudko / Of sources and files : the making of the Securitate target Ana Novac / Espionage and intimacy : West Berlin Turkish men in the Stasi's eyes / Fleeing to the West : the 1978 airplane hijacking from Gdansk to West Berlin / Espionage and the Cold War in DEFA films : double agents in For Eyes Only (1963) and Chiffriert an Chef Ausfall Nr. 5 (1979) / Breaking borders : Niklaus Schilling's critical spy drama The Willi Busch Report / Political ambiguity in recent Cold War spy stories on screen / Valentina Glajar -- Mary Beth Stein -- Alison Lewis -- Julie Fedor -- Corina leaves Petrescu -- Jennifer A. Miller -- Axel hildebrandt -- Carol Anne Costabile-Heming -- Lisa Haegele -- Cheryl Dueck.

"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"--



9781640122000 9781640121980


Espionage--History--Europe, Eastern--20th century.
Espionage--History.--Communist countries
Spies--History--Europe, Eastern--20th century.
Spies--Europe, Eastern--Biography.
Cold War.
Espionage in literature.
Espionage in motion pictures.
Cold War in literature.
Cold War in motion pictures.


Electronic Books.

DJK50 / .C653 2019