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Iron curtain : the crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956

Applebaum, Anne, 1964- author

2013

Overview

In the follow-up to her previous book \"Gulag,\" the author, a journalist, delivers a history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway. At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union, to its surprise and delight, found itself in control of a huge swath of territory in Eastern Europe. Josef Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to Communism, a completely new political and moral system. In this book, the author describes how the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe were created and what daily life was like once they were complete. She draws on newly opened East European archives, interviews, and personal accounts translated for the first time to portray in 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. Today the Soviet Bloc is a lost civilization, one whose cruelty, paranoia, bizarre morality, and strange aesthetics is captured in the pages of this book.

• Publisher: Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc.
• Subject: 1900 - 1999 / Communism Europe, Eastern History 20th century. / Communism Social aspects Europe, Eastern History 20th century. / Political culture Europe, Eastern History 20th century. / Political persecution Europe, Eastern History 20th century. / Communism. / Communism Social aspects. / Political culture. / Political persecution. / Political science. / Relations. / Social history. / Europe, Eastern Relations Soviet Union. / Soviet Union Relations Europe, Eastern. / Europe, Eastern Politics and government 1945-1989. / Europe, Eastern Social conditions 20th century. / Communist countries Politics and government. / Communist countries Social conditions. / Communist countries. / Europe, Eastern. / Soviet Union.
• ISBN: 9781400095933, 140009593X

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DJK45.S65 A67 2013	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE