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Reading the Archival Revolution

Declassified Stories and Their Challenges

By: Cristina Vatulescu

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Reading the Archival Revolution

Declassified Stories and Their Challenges

By: Cristina Vatulescu

The opening of classified documents from the Soviet era has been dubbed the "archival revolution" due to its unprecedented scale, drama, and impact. With a storyteller's sensibility, Cristina Vatulescu identifies and takes on the main challenges of reading in these archives. This transnational study foregrounds peripheral Eastern European perspectives and the ethical stakes of archival research. In so doing, it contributes to the urgent task of decolonizing the field of Eastern European and Russian studies at this critical moment in the region's history. Drawing on diverse work ranging from Mikhail Bakhtin to Tina Campt, the book enters into broader conversations about the limits and potential of reading documents, fictions, and one another. Pairing one key reading challenge with a particularly arresting story, Vatulescu in turn investigates Michel Foucault's traces in Polish secret police archives; tackles the files, reenactment film, and photo albums of a socialist bank heist; pits autofiction against disinformation in the secret police files of Nobel Prize laureate Herta Müller; and takes on the digital remediation of Soviet-era archives by analyzing contested translations of the Iron Curtain trope from its 1946 origins to the current war in Ukraine. The result is a bona fide reader's guide to Eastern Europe's ongoing archival revolution.

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Stanford University Press

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1503641031

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Police Aesthetics

Literature, Film, and the Secret Police in Soviet Times

By: Cristina Vatulescu

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Police Aesthetics

Literature, Film, and the Secret Police in Soviet Times

By: Cristina Vatulescu

The documents emerging from the secret police archives of the former Soviet bloc have caused scandal after scandal, compromising revered cultural figures and abruptly ending political careers. Police Aesthetics offers a revealing and responsible approach to such materials. Taking advantage of the partial opening of the secret police archives in Russia and Romania, Vatulescu focuses on their most infamous holdings—the personal files—as well as on movies the police sponsored, scripted, or authored. Through the archives, she gains new insights into the writing of literature and raises new questions about the ethics of reading. She shows how police files and films influenced literature and cinema, from autobiographies to novels, from high-culture classics to avant-garde experiments and popular blockbusters. In so doing, she opens a fresh chapter in the heated debate about the relationship between culture and politics in twentieth-century police states.

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0804775729

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9780804775724

Police Aesthetics

Literature, Film, and the Secret Police in Soviet Times

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Literature, Film, and the Secret Police in Soviet Times

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Reading the Archival Revolution

Reading the Archival Revolution

Police Aesthetics

Police Aesthetics

Police Aesthetics

Police Aesthetics

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