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Iron curtain : the crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
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Iron curtain : the crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 / Anne Applebaum.
ISBN
9780385515696 (hardcover)
0385515693 (hardcover)
Edition
1st United States ed.
Published
New York : Doubleday, c2012.
Physical Description
xxxvi, 566 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Summary
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.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 22, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [475]-541) and index.
Contents
Zero hour
Victors
Communists
Policemen
Violence
Ethnic cleansing
Youth
Radio
Politics
Economics
Enemies: religion
Enemies: inside and outside the Party
Homo sovieticus
Socialist realism
Ideal cities
Collaborators...and reluctant sympathizers
Passive opponents
Revolutions
Epilogue.
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