Jens Gieseke

Jens Gieseke is head of the research department "Communism and Society" at the Centre for Contemporary History in Potsdam, Germany. His most recent publications include The History of the Stasi: East Germany's Secret Police, 1945-1990 (2014) and as co-editor, The Silent Majority in Communist and Post-Communist States: Opinion Polling in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe (2016).

Jens Gieseke is head of the research department "Communism and Society" at the Centre for Contemporary History in Potsdam, Germany. His most recent publications include The History of the Stasi: East Germany's Secret Police, 1945-1990 (2014) and as co-editor, The Silent Majority in Communist and Post-Communist States: Opinion Polling in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe (2016). See less