Comparative Horrors
Timothy Garton Ash: Delatology, 19 March 1998
Accusatory Practices: Denunciation in Modern European History, 1789-1989
edited by Sheila Fitzpatrick and Robert Gellately.
Chicago, 231 pp., $27.95, September 1997,0 226 25273 6 Show More
edited by Sheila Fitzpatrick and Robert Gellately.
Chicago, 231 pp., $27.95, September 1997,
“... on the subject.* Comparative delatology is a new subbranch of this larger comparative endeavour. Sheila Fitzpatrick, one of the editors of Accusatory Practices, has collected 200 denunciations from Soviet archives of the Thirties, though she was denied access to those of the KGB. She makes the point that denunciations were made not just to the secret ... ”