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The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944–1956
Anne Applebaum: Iron Curtain Anne Applebaum: Iron Curtain

In ​the long-awaited 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.

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. Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to Communism, a completely new political and moral system. In Iron Curtain, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Applebaum 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 devastating detail the dilemmas faced by millions of individuals trying to adjust to a… (tovább)

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Penguin, New York, 2013
656 oldal · ISBN: 9780141021874
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Doubleday, New York City, USA, 2012
608 oldal · ISBN: 9780385515696 · ASIN: 0385515693

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