Iron Curtain

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Time magazine's 1 Nonfiction Book of the Year
A New York Times Notable Book
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF
THE YEAR: The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Epic but intimate history [Applebaum] eloquently illuminates the methods by which Stalin's
state imprisoned half the European continent." -The Wall Street Journal
"Iron Curtain is a superb, revisionistic, brilliantly perceptive, often witty, totally gripping history. . The book is full of things i didn't know-but should have." —Simon Sebag Montefiore, London Evening Standard
"Remarkable. A book that reanimates a world that was largely hidden from Western eyes, and that many people who lived and suffered in it would prefer to forget."
—The New Yorker
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... Tovább

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Time magazine's 1 Nonfiction Book of the Year
A New York Times Notable Book
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF
THE YEAR: The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Epic but intimate history [Applebaum] eloquently illuminates the methods by which Stalin's
state imprisoned half the European continent." -The Wall Street Journal
"Iron Curtain is a superb, revisionistic, brilliantly perceptive, often witty, totally gripping history. . The book is full of things i didn't know-but should have." —Simon Sebag Montefiore, London Evening Standard
"Remarkable. A book that reanimates a world that was largely hidden from Western eyes, and that many people who lived and suffered in it would prefer to forget."
—The New Yorker
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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