Melina J Dobson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5807586 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melina J Dobson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melina J |
| FAMILY NAME | Dobson |
| SIGNATURE | DOBSON M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7272-1526 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Operation Rubicon
Operation Rubicon was probably one of the most successful intelligence operations of our time. Recent press revelations detail this secret partnership between the German Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) and the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), focused on the purchase and control of Crypto AG. Supported by German technical giants like Siemens, the company sold and produced compromised cypher machines. This article challenges the idea that …
The last forum of accountability? State secrecy, intelligence and freedom of information in the United Kingdom
The official mechanisms of intelligence oversight and accountability in the United Kingdom are arguably disjointed and ineffective. Thus, informal actors such as journalists, have played a more significant role. In addition, a rise of whistleblowers and leakers, such as Chelsea Manning, have highlighted the importance of online archives as an avenue for accountability. The United Kingdom is legally bound to place official documents on the public …
Nanci Adler. Keeping Faith with the Party
Nanci Adler's previous monograph, The Gulag Survivor: Beyond the Soviet System (2002), surveyed the experiences of returnees from Stalinist prison camps after the dictator's death. Focusing on victims of political terror, she argued that most experienced a marginal and stigmatized existence in which the struggle for housing, work, and social recognition broadly construed meant that post-camp life was still one of suffering and hardship. Her new s…
Cars for Comrades
Visitors to today's Russia are often struck by the frantic pace of the gridlocked cities where cars clog the streets and jam every last corner of pavement and waste ground to be found; yet, as Lewis Siegelbaum's monograph shows, the explosion of car ownership since 1991 is not just a Western import but has its roots in the Soviet past. Today's automobile culture is largely the result of the Communist Party's commitment to nurturing its own manufa…
The Soviet Union
As Edward Acton and Tom Stableford note in the introduction to this volume of translated sources, the years following the opening of the archives have been exciting times for scholars of the Soviet Union. This is not the first such collection, but it is perhaps one of the most successful and it does an excellent job of giving those who do not speak Russian ‘a taste of the intellectual feast that is underway’ (p. xviii). This collection, a success…
Stalinism and the Politics of Mobilization
The last forum of accountability? State secrecy, intelligence and freedom of information in the United Kingdom
The official mechanisms of intelligence oversight and accountability in the United Kingdom are arguably disjointed and ineffective. Thus, informal actors such as journalists, have played a more significant role. In addition, a rise of whistleblowers and leakers, such as Chelsea Manning, have highlighted the importance of online archives as an avenue for accountability. The United Kingdom is legally bound to place official documents on the public …
Stalinism and the Politics of Mobilization
The Soviet Union
As Edward Acton and Tom Stableford note in the introduction to this volume of translated sources, the years following the opening of the archives have been exciting times for scholars of the Soviet Union. This is not the first such collection, but it is perhaps one of the most successful and it does an excellent job of giving those who do not speak Russian ‘a taste of the intellectual feast that is underway’ (p. xviii). This collection, a success…
Stalinism and the Politics of Mobilization
Cars for Comrades
Visitors to today's Russia are often struck by the frantic pace of the gridlocked cities where cars clog the streets and jam every last corner of pavement and waste ground to be found; yet, as Lewis Siegelbaum's monograph shows, the explosion of car ownership since 1991 is not just a Western import but has its roots in the Soviet past. Today's automobile culture is largely the result of the Communist Party's commitment to nurturing its own manufa…
Nanci Adler. Keeping Faith with the Party
Nanci Adler's previous monograph, The Gulag Survivor: Beyond the Soviet System (2002), surveyed the experiences of returnees from Stalinist prison camps after the dictator's death. Focusing on victims of political terror, she argued that most experienced a marginal and stigmatized existence in which the struggle for housing, work, and social recognition broadly construed meant that post-camp life was still one of suffering and hardship. Her new s…
The last forum of accountability? State secrecy, intelligence and freedom of information in the United Kingdom
The official mechanisms of intelligence oversight and accountability in the United Kingdom are arguably disjointed and ineffective. Thus, informal actors such as journalists, have played a more significant role. In addition, a rise of whistleblowers and leakers, such as Chelsea Manning, have highlighted the importance of online archives as an avenue for accountability. The United Kingdom is legally bound to place official documents on the public …
Operation Rubicon
Operation Rubicon was probably one of the most successful intelligence operations of our time. Recent press revelations detail this secret partnership between the German Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) and the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), focused on the purchase and control of Crypto AG. Supported by German technical giants like Siemens, the company sold and produced compromised cypher machines. This article challenges the idea that …
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