My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File Xiatu (原DangDang) from its origins in the

from its origins in the Russian Revolution

and their own personal desires

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My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File Xiatu (原DangDang) from its origins in theAs Katherine Verdery observes, "There's nothing like reading your secret police file to make you wonder who you really are." In 1973 Verdery began her doctoral fieldwork in the Transylvanian region of Romania, ruled at the time by communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. She returned several times over the next twenty five years, during which time the secret policethe Securitatecompiled a massive surveillance file on her. Reading through its 2,781 pages,