EAN: 9781400095933

IRON CURTAIN - ANNE APPLEBAUM KARTONIERT (TB)

National Book Award Finalist   TIME Magazine's #1 Nonfiction Book of 2012 A New York Times
Notable Book A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2012 Best Nonfiction of 2012: The Wall Street
Journal   The Plain Dealer    In the much-anticipated 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. Iron Curtain describes how  spurred by Stalin and his
secret police  the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe were created and what daily life was
like once they were complete. Drawing on newly opened East European archives  interviews  and
personal accounts translated for the first time  Applebaum portrays in chilling 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. As a result the Soviet Bloc
became a lost civilization  one whose cruelty  paranoia  bizarre morality  and strange
aesthetics Applebaum captures in these electrifying pages.

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