Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 (Book) [show prizes]
Title: Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
Author: Anne Applebaum
Editor: Kris Puopolo
Abstract: A groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed the individuals who came under its sway. Iron Curtain describes how, spurred by Stalin and his secret police, the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe were created and what daily life was like once they were complete. Drawing on newly opened East European archives, interviews, and personal accounts translated for the first time, Applebaum portrays in chilling detail the dilemmas faced by millions of individuals trying to adjust to a way of life that challenged their every belief and took away everything they had accumulated. As a result the Soviet Bloc became a lost civilization, one whose cruelty, paranoia, bizarre morality, and strange aesthetics Applebaum captures in these electrifying pages.
Year: 2013
Year: 2012
Primary URL: http://http://www.worldcat.org/title/iron-curtain-the-crushing-of-eastern-europe-1944-56/oclc/814350432
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Secondary URL: http://https://www.amazon.com/Iron-Curtain-Crushing-Eastern-1944-1956/dp/140009593X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1469195758&sr=8-1&keywords=iron+curtain+applebaum
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Access Model: book, electronic book, audio book
Publisher: Doubleday
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 978-1400095933
Copy sent to NEH?: No

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