Political control and freedoms Books

Book SynopsisMuriel Blaive is Advisor to the Director for Research and Methodology at the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Czech Republic. She is the editor, together with Christian Gerbel and Thomas Lindenberger, of Clashes in European Memory: The Case of Communist Repression and the Holocaust (2010).Table of ContentsList of Figure List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction, Muriel Blaive (Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Czech Republic) Part I: From Postwar to Stalinism 1. Secret Agents: Reassessing the Agency of Radio Listeners in Cold War Czechoslovakia (1945-1953), Rosamund Johnston (New York University, USA) 2. Practices of Distance, Perceptions of Proximity: Trade Union Delegates and Everyday Politics in Post-World War II Romania, Adrian Grama (Central European University, Hungary) 3. A Case Study of Legitimization Practices: The Czechoslovak Stalinist Elites at the Regional Level (1948-1951), Marián Lóži (Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Czech Republic) 4. Policing the Police: The ‘Instructor Group’ and the Stalinisation of the Czechoslovak Secret Police (1948-1951), Molly Pucci (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Part II: From Stalinism to Real Existing Socialism 5. Constructive Complaints and Socialist Subversion in Stalinist Czechoslovakia: E.F. Burian’s Scandal in the Picture Gallery, Shawn Clybor (Dwight-Englewood School, USA) 6. Perceptions of Society in Czechoslovak Secret Police Archives: How a ‘Czechoslovak 1956’ Was Thwarted, Muriel Blaive (Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Czech Republic) 7. Crises and the Creation of Institutions for Assessing Popular Consumption Preferences in Communist Bulgaria, 1953-1970, Martin K. Dimitrov (Tulane University, USA) 8. Who is Afraid of Whom? The Case of the ‘Loyal Dissidents’ in the German Democratic Republic, Sonia Combe (Centre Marc Bloch, Germany) Part III: From Real Existing Socialism to the End - and Beyond 9. Did Communist Children’s Television Communicate Universal Values? Representing Borders in the Polish Series Four Tank-Men and a Dog, Machteld Venken (Vienna University, Austria) 10. Between Censorship and Scholarship: The Editorial Board of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 1969-89, Libora Oates-Indruchová (Graz University, Austria) 11. ‘How Many Days Have the Comrades’ Wives Spent in a Queue?' Appealing to the Ceausescus in Late-Socialist Romania, Jill Massino (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA) 12. Authenticating the Past: Archives, Secret Police, and Heroism in Contemporary Czech Representations of Socialism, Veronika Pehe (Institute for Contemporary History, Czech Republic) Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisGives an account of how some citizens actively assist state surveillance by informing on others, such as during the Cold War and the campaign against terrorism. The author provides a study of human informers - people who secretly supply information to a domestic security agency (a spy provides information to a foreign intelligence service).Trade Review"Snitch! is a concise and fluent reminder that, for all the publicity about increasing technical surveillance, informers were not just the first way by which states sought security information but are now re-emphasised as a critical feature of countering terrorism. Through examining famous cases and general aspects of the recruitment and use of informers, Steve Hewitt has provided an excellent survey of their utility for ‘authorities' and the personal and social costs entailed." --Peter Gill, University of LiverpoolFascinating, original and carefully researched, 'Snitch!' is an intelligent and superbly readable book on a subject that could not be more timely. --Richard J. Aldrich, Professor of International Security, University of Warwick"A UK expert on security and intelligence contributes to the little existing scholarship on informers with a survey that provides social and historical context on those who supply information to government agencies on intelligence matters rather than crime. From case studies of famous informers (e.g., Ronald Reagan), informer states, and the use of informers in the current 'war on terror,' Hewitt concludes that snitching is a state activity to be feared because of the existing lack of limitations and transparency." -Eithne O'Leyne, BOOK NEWS, Inc.‘This important study aims at a ‘broad, international and accessible survey' that places informers in the context of their times and places.' -- Contemporary ReviewReviewed in French in Veille Magazine.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. "Inherent in the Conditions of Human Society:" The Nature of Informing; 3. Informing History; 4. Famous Informers; 5. Informer States; 6. Informers in the "War on Terror"; 7. Conclusion: Living in the Informer Age.

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Book SynopsisAntonio Negri wrote the two essays that comprise Time for Revolution while serving a prison sentence for alleged involvement with radical left-wing groups. Although the essays were written two decades apart, their concerns are the same: is there a place for resistance in a society utterly subsumed by capitalism? In the wake of the global crisis of capitalism heralded by the 2008 crash, the question has never been more relevant and Negri remains an insightful and passionate guide to any attempt to answer it.Trade ReviewWe discover here another Negri, a Negri deeply immersed in a philosophical, even a theological problematic. This book is a MUST: it provides the proper background for Negri's widely circulated analysis of the global capitalist Empire. -- Slavoj ZizekTime for Revolution constitutes a major philosophical statement by one of the most important thinkers of our time. -- Fredric JamesonTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Translator's Introduction I. The Constitution of Time Preamble 1. First Displacement: The Time of Subsumed Being 2. First Construction: Collective Time A 3. First Construction: Collective Time B 4. Second Construction: Productive Time A 5. Second Construction: Productive Time B 6. Third Construction: Constitutive Time A 7. Third Construction: Constitutive Time B 8. Second Displacement: The Time of the Revolution W 9. Third Displacement: The Time of the Revolution Y Afterword II. Kairòs, Alma Venus, Multitudo Introduction Kairòs Alma Venus Multitudo Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn the current day and age, objective facts have less influence on opinions and decisions than personal emotions and beliefs. Many individuals rely on their social networks to gather information thanks to social media's ability to share information rapidly and over a much greater geographic range. However, this creates an overall false balance as people tend to seek out information that is compatible with their existing views and values. They deliberately seek out "facts" and data that specifically support their conclusions and classify any information that contradicts their beliefs as "false news."Navigating Fake News, Alternative Facts, and Misinformation in a Post-Truth World is a collection of innovative research on human and automated methods to deter the spread of misinformation online, such as legal or policy changes, information literacy workshops, and algorithms that can detect fake news dissemination patterns in social media. While highlighting topics including source credibility, share culture, and media literacy, this book is ideally designed for social media managers, technology and software developers, IT specialists, educators, columnists, writers, editors, journalists, broadcasters, newscasters, researchers, policymakers, and students.

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Book SynopsisLenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Hitler and Goebbels all regarded cinema as their most important weapon for mass political propaganda. This revised and expanded edition of "Film Propaganda" examines the ways in which cinema was used for political purposes by two of the most highly politicised societies in twentieth-century European history. "Film Propaganda" is still to date the only book in English to compare these two cinemas and examine both in depth. Richard Taylor demonstrates how cinema was brought under political control in each country and goes on to explore the themes and stereotypes projected by the feature films that were produced. In so doing, he highlights the means used by the authorities to condition and control the filmgoer as individual spectator and as member of a mass audience. This process is examined in greater depth in a series of detailed analyses of films selected for their particular political significance, including "October", "Alexander Nevsky", "Triumph of the Will", "The Wandering Jew" and, new to this edition, the 1949 Stalin cult film, "The Fall of Berlin". Also new to this edition are appendices with details of films viewed by Hitler and Goebbels, which were captured by the Red Army from Berlin 's ruins in 1945 and were considered by Stalin for release during the film famine years after the war.

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Book SynopsisA compilation of Adrian Favell's innovative and agenda-setting essays which, since the late 1990s, have charted the emergence of new migration patterns and politics in Europe.

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