01578nam a2200181Ia 450000500170000000800410001702000180005808200200007610000230009624500570011926000400017652009640021665000240118065000280120494200080123299900170124095201390125720261005144506.0260603s9999||||xx |||||||||||||| ||und||  a9781848870888  223a943.087 ASH  aAsh,Timothy Garton 4aThe Fileb: A Personal Historyc/ Timothy Garton Ash  aNew Delhib: Atlantic Booksc, 2009  aWhen Timothy Garton Ash graduated from Oxford in 1978, he went to live in Berlin, ostensibly to research and write about Nazism. But once there, he gradually immersed himself in a study of the repressive political culture of East Germany. As if to return the favor, that culture--in the form of the dreaded East German secret police, the "Stasi"--secretly began studying him. As was Stasi's practice, over the years its study produced a considerable paper trail. After the fall of the East German communist regime, a government apparatus was established to allow those targeted to see their Stasi files, and Garton Ash discovered and pored over his. He then set about to interview the people who made this gross intrusion possible, the several case officers, and the numerous regular-citizen informers. The result is nothing short of a journey into the darkest recesses of the totalitarian mind, taking its place honorably alongside 1984 and Darkness at Noon.  aHistory Of Germany   aPolitics and Government  cRBK  c68664d68664  00102ddc4071aSNULbSNULd2026-06-03l0o943.087 ASHpG7959r2026-06-03 15:18:23w2026-06-03yRBKzProf. Romila Thapar's Collection