Informers Up Close: Stories from Communist Prague
Mark A. Drumbl andBarbora Holá
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2024
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9780191945267
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9780192855138
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Informers Up Close: Stories from Communist Prague
Mark A. Drumbl andBarbora Holá
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Based on informer file-stories, Chapter 5 offers a number of key observations about the social practice of informing in Communist Czechoslovakia. Concepts such as intimacy, power, social navigation, strategy, tactics, and exchange contour the relationship between StB officers and ‘their’ informers. Informing blurs the line between the political and the personal. Informers occupy liminal spaces between victims and victimizers. Many informers were blackmailed into informing but many turned to the StB to leverage their private wants and actualize their immediate needs. Chapter 5 examines the role of emotions as catalysing and then sustaining these interactive dimensions. Four emotions in particular stand out: fear, resentment, desire, and allegiance. This chapter invokes the file-stories to illustrate these emotions in the life stories of informers, while also noting that StB officers, as well, expressed sentiments such as solicitude and disappointment during their interactions with ‘their’ informers.
Keywords: informers, secret police officers, intimacy, social navigation, emotions, fear, resentment, desire, allegiance, victim–victimizer
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Public International Law
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Informers Up Close. Mark A. Drumbl and Barbora Holá, Oxford University Press. © Mark A. Drumbl and Barbora Holá 2024. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192855138.003.0005
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