Security Empire: The Secret Police in Communist Eastern Europe. By Molly Pucci. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2020. Pp. xiv + 378. Cloth $65.00. ISBN 978-0300242577.
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DOI: 10.1017/s0008938921000996
Abstract: throughout the continent. Beginning in the 1970s, and partly in response to increasingly multicultural demographics, various right-wing politicians and movements have represented themselves as defenders of “Western civilization,” a frequent euphemism for “White” civilization. The… read more here.
Keywords: empire secret; security empire; secret police; police communist ... See more keywords
From Comrades to Subversives: Mexican Secret Police and ‘Undesirable’ Spanish Exiles, 1939–60
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DOI: 10.1017/s0022216x20001017
Abstract: Abstract This article examines the Mexican state's surveillance of Spanish political exiles. As the Mexican government publicly welcomed over 20,000 political refugees fleeing the Spanish Civil War (1936–9), its intelligence apparatus characterised anarchist and communist… read more here.
Keywords: subversives mexican; secret police; mexican secret; police undesirable ... See more keywords