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by Carl Eric Scott (Editor), F. Flagg IV Taylor (Editor)
From its creation in 1950, to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the German Democratic Republic's Ministry for State Security closely monitored its nation's citizens. Known as the Staatssicherheit or Stasi, this organization was regarded as one of the most repressive intelligence agencies in the world. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's 2006 film The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) has received international acclaim-including an Academy Award, an Independent Spirit Award, and multiple
Author Biography
Carl Eric Scott is visiting assistant professor of politics at Christopher Newport University.
F. Flagg Taylor IV is associate professor of government at Skidmore College. He is the editor of The Great Lie: Classic and Recent Appraisals of Ideology and Totalitarianism.
