Accusatory Practices Denunciation in Modern European History, 1789-1989

Name: Accusatory Practices Denunciation in Modern European History, 1789-1989
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ISBN: 9780226252735

ISBN-10: 0226252736

ISBN-13: 9780226252735

Edition: 1997

Authors: Sheila Fitzpatrick, Robert Gellately

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"Produced by religious intolerance, political fanaticism, or social resentment, denunciation is a modern democratic practice too long neglected by historians. This fascinating book, written by excellent specialists, establishes a first inventory of this practice, leading the reader through the revolutionary and counter-revolutionary cultures of the last two centuries."--Francois Furet "This is a fascinating and highly original exploration of a familiar, though poorly understood, phenomenon of modern societies in general and totalitarian systems in particular. From the French Revolution to the NKVD, Gestapo, and Stasi, denunciation is analyzed both as a function of political surveillance…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/1/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 0.64" wide x 0.94" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English



Introduction to the Practices of Denunciation in Modern European History



The Theory and Practice of Denunciation in the French Revolution



A Culture of Denunciation: Peasant Labor Migration and Religious Anathematization in Rural Russia, 1860-1905



Denunciation as a Tool of Ecclesiastical Control: The Case of Roman Catholic Modernism



Signals from Below: Soviet Letters of Denunciation of the 1930s



Denunciation and Its Functions in Soviet Governance: A Study of Denunciations and Their Bureaucratic Handling from Soviet Police Archives, 1944-1953



The Uses of Volksgemeinschaft: Letters to the NSDAP Kreisleitung Eisenach, 1939-1940



Denunciations in Twentieth-Century Germany: Aspects of Self-Policing in the Third Reich and the German Democratic Republic



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