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Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 in Bloomington, MN
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National Book Award Finalist
TIME
Magazine's #1 Nonfiction Book of 2012
A
New York Times
Notable Book
Washington Post
Top Ten Book of 2012
Best Nonfiction of 2012:
The Wall Street Journal
,
The Plain Dealer
In the much-anticipated follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning
Gulag
, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion 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.
TIME
Magazine's #1 Nonfiction Book of 2012
A
New York Times
Notable Book
Washington Post
Top Ten Book of 2012
Best Nonfiction of 2012:
The Wall Street Journal
,
The Plain Dealer
In the much-anticipated follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning
Gulag
, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion 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.
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