Iron curtain : the crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-1956
(2012)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
947/APPLEBAUM,A
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Doubleday, [2012]
©2012
©2012
DESCRIPTION
xxxvi, 566 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780385515696, 0385515693
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Zero Hour -- Victors -- Communists -- Policemen -- Violence -- Ethnic Cleansing -- Youth -- Radio -- Politics -- Economics -- Reactionary Enemies -- Internal Enemies -- Homo Sovieticus -- Socilist Realism -- Ideal Cities -- Collaborators -- Passive Opponents -- Revolutions -- Epilogue
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