Iron Curtain

by Applebaum, Anne

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Title Statements

Full title :Iron Curtain / Anne Applebaum.

Summary

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2012.
Edition:1st United States ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Doubleday
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012.

The Physical Object

Description:xxxvi, 566 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations, maps ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780385515696, 0385515693
oclc:on1001507576
LC Classification:DJK45.S65

pt. 1. False dawn : Zero hour ; Victors ; Communists ; Policemen ; Violence ; Ethnic cleansing ; Youth ; Radio ; Politics ; Economics -- pt. 2. High Stalinism : Reactionary enemies ; Internal enemies ; Homo Sovieticus ; Socialist realism ; Ideal cities ; Reluctant collaborators ; Passive opponents ; Revolutions -- Epilogue.

Subjects

Communism Communism -- History -- 20th century. -… Communism -- Social aspects Communism -- Social aspects -- 20th cen… Communist countries Communist countries -- Politics and gov… Communist countries -- Social conditions Eastern Europe Europe de l'Est -- Conditions sociales … Europe de l'Est -- Politique et gouvern… Europe de l'Est -- Relations -- URSS Europe, Eastern -- Politics and governm… Europe, Eastern -- Relations -- Soviet … Europe, Eastern -- Social conditions --… History international relations Pays socialistes -- Conditions sociales Political culture Political culture -- History -- 20th ce… Political persecution