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Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945–1956

Anne Applebaum

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Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945–1956

Iron Curtain won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. At the end of WW II, the Soviet Union, to its surprise and delight, found itself in control of a huge swath of territory in Central Europe. It set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to a completely new political and moral system: Communism. Iron Curtain describes how the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe were created, and what daily life was like once they were completed. Applebaum draws on newly opened European archives and personal accounts translated for the first time to portray in devastating detail millions of individuals trying to adjust to a way of life that challenged their every belief, rendered worthless their every qualification, and took away everything they had accumulated. Today the Soviet Bloc is a lost civilization, one whose cruelty, paranoia, bizarre morality and strange aethestics Applebaum captures in the electrifying pages of this book.

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Publisher
National Geographic Books
Year
2013
ISBN-13
9780771007644
Genre
History
Topics
Communist takeover of Eastern EuropeCold WarSoviet occupation and totalitarianism

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