Kristie Macrakis

Biographic Data

ID1086594
NAMEKristie Macrakis
GIVEN NAMESKristie
FAMILY NAMEMacrakis
SIGNATUREMACRAKIS K
AFFILIATIONSGeorgia Institute of Technology
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS18
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR18
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1989
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX0

  • Versagtes Vertrauen

    Kristie MacrakisARTICLETechnology and Culture2022

    Reviewed by: Versagtes Vertrauen: Wissenschaftler der DDR im Visier der Staatssicherheit [Betrayed trust: GDR scientists as targets of state security] by Reinhard Buthmann Kristie Macrakis (bio) Versagtes Vertrauen: Wissenschaftler der DDR im Visier der Staatssicherheit [Betrayed trust: GDR scientists as targets of state security] by Reinhard Buthmann. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020. Pp. 1178. When this 1,000-page, 4.6 pound, small print…

  • To the Editors

    Kristie Macrakis, Galina WeinsteinARTICLEIsis2022

  • K atrin P aehler . The Third Reich’s Intelligence Services

    Open AccessKristie MacrakisARTICLEThe American Historical Review2019

    Walter Schellenberg had a fear-inducing title and pedigree: he served as the last head of Nazi Germany’s Reich Security Main Office, Office VI (the Foreign Intelligence Service), worked in the security service of the SS, headed the Gestapo’s counterintelligence department, and was a member of the Nazi Party and the SS. After World War II, he got off lightly at the Nuremberg trials, only serving a six-year sentence. Among the lay public he became …

  • Can a Tunnel Become a Double Agent—For the Soviets

    Kristie MacrakisARTICLEInternational Journal of…2018

    I was riding the Washington, DC metro home one day with a fellow hiker who, curious about the topic of a project I was working on about U.S. intelligence, asked me if a tunnel can become a double a

  • Prisoners, Lovers, and Spies

    Kristie MacrakisBOOKPrisoners, Lovers, and Spies2014

  • Saved by Secrets

    Kristie MacrakisARTICLEInternational Journal of…2013

    In May 2012, the Associated Press announced a spectacular intelligence coup. A suicide bomber sent by al-Qaeda's Yemen branch to blow up an American bound airplane was revealed to have actually bee

  • Technophilic Hubris and Espionage Styles during the Cold War

    Kristie MacrakisARTICLEIsis2010References: 3

    During the Cold War the United States developed an espionage style that reflected its love affair with technology (technophilia) whereas the Soviet Union and the East Bloc continued a tradition of using humans to collect intelligence. This essay places the origins and development of these espionage styles during the Cold War in historical and social context, and assesses their strengths and weaknesses by drawing on examples from particular cases.…

  • Seduced by secrets

    Kristie MacrakisBOOKSeduced by secrets2008

    More fascinating than fiction, Seduced by Secrets takes the reader inside the real world of one of the most effective and feared spy agencies in history. The book reveals the secret technical methods and sources of the Stasi (East German Ministry for State Security) as it stole secrets from abroad and developed gadgets at home. Seduced by Secrets draws on secret files from the Stasi archives to demonstrate that the Stasi overestimated the power o…

  • Science under Socialism

    Hans-Werner Fuchs, H Fuchs et al.ARTICLEGerman Studies Review2000

    Drawing on interviews with, among others, the legendary spy chief Markus Wolf and members of the East German Politburo, this text examines the role of science and technology in the former German Democratic Republic. The result is a multi-layered analysis of the scientific enterprise. The book is organized around general policy issues, institutions, disciplines, and biographies. The contributors take the reader on a journey from the view of scienc…

  • Naturwissenschaft und Technik in der DDR

    Joachim Neander, Dieter Hoffmann et al.ARTICLEGerman Studies Review1999

  • Stalinist Science. Nikolai Krementsov

    Kristie MacrakisARTICLEIsis1999

  • Surviving the Swastika

    Jeffrey Allan Johnson, Kristie MacrakisARTICLEGerman Studies Review1996

    Surviving the Swastika examines scientific research under National Socialism through the prism of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of the Sciences, the prestigious forerunner of the Max Planck Society. Home to over twenty Nobel-prize winning scientists, the Society was at the forefront of scientific advance in the first half of the twentieth century. Surprisingly, the Society not only survived National Socialism, but often thrived. …

  • Die Welteislehre

    Kristie MacrakisARTICLEIsis1996

  • Surviving the Swastika

    Richard M Hunt, Kristie MacrakisARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1995

  • Radical Transitions

    Kristie Macrakis, Andreas PickelARTICLEGerman Studies Review1994

    This is a study of entrepreneurship under communist rule in the GDR. It sets out to show how the private sector made the initial transistion from a capitalist to a socialist society after World War II, was integrated into the socialist system that prevailed until 1989, and then developed in the rapid transition to a market new socioeconomic order. Exploring the continuing relevance of the lessons to be learned from the communist experiment in soc…

  • Forschung im Spanungsfeld von Politik und Gesellschaft

    Kristie MacrakisARTICLEIsis1993

  • Coming to Terms with Medicine and Eugenics in Germany

    Kristie MacrakisARTICLEJournal of the History of…1991

    Journal Article Coming to Terms with Medicine and Eugenics in Germany: An Essay Review* Get access KRISTIE MACRAKIS KRISTIE MACRAKIS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 46, Issue 1, January 1991, Pages 97–109, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/46.1.97 Published: 01 January 1991

  • The Rockefeller Foundation and German physics under national socialism

    Open AccessKristie MacrakisARTICLEMinerva1989