1st Edition
Dossierveillance, Collaboration, and Fear in Society The Saga of a Journey Through the Securitate Archives and Beyond
Part 1: An Itinerant in the Securitate Archives
1. Three Questions
2. Doing Research in the Securitate Archives
3. Brief Historical Overview: Romania and the Other Satellite States during the Cold War
Part 2: The Reluctant Betrayal: Collaboration During Nicolae Ceauşescu Regime (1965-89)
4. Defining Psuchegraphy: Antonie Plămădeală’s Novel Trei Ceasuri în Iad
5. The Four Stages of Psuchegraphic Work in Securitate Manuals
6. On Dossierveillance in Communist Romania under Ceauşescu: its tangible dimension
7. On Dossierveillance in Communist Romania under Ceauşescu: its non-tangible dimension
8. Post-recruitment: Between Banalization of Evil and Perpetration
Part 3: Dossierveillance Then and Now
9. On Centralized Deliberate Dossierveillance
10. Centralized Deliberate Dossierveillance and Lustration
11. A Few More Thoughts on Dossierveillance
Biography
Cristina Plamadeala is a researcher. She writes about surveillance practices in totalitarian and neo-liberal societies. She has published works on the subject of religion, culture and politics, Romanian history, and the history of communism. A philosopher and historian of Eastern European history by training, with a background in theology, her work attempts to ask historical questions through philosophical and theological lenses. In her spare time, she writes novels and divides her time between Quebec, Canada, and France.
