The fifteenth book, Securing the Communist State: The Reconstruction of Coercive Institutions in the Soviet Zone of Germany and Romania, 1944-1948 by Liesbeth Van de Grift, focuses on Romania and eastern Germany as case studies of the establishment of Soviet-style state security organs in the countries that fell under Soviet occupation at the end of World War II.  Drawing on archival material materials from Russia, Romania, Germany, the United States, and Great Britain, she sheds new light on the repressive mechanisms set up by Soviet forces to consolidate Soviet rule in the two countries.