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100 1 $aApplebaum, Anne,$d1964-
245 10 $aIron curtain :$bthe crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 /$cAnne Applebaum.
250 $a1st United States ed.
260 $aNew York :$bDoubleday,$cc2012.
300 $axxxvi, 566 p., [28] p. of plates :$bill., maps ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [475]-541) and index.
505 0 $aPt. 1. False dawn. Zero hour ; Victors ; Communists ; Policemen ; Violence ; Ethnic cleansing ; Youth ; Radio ; Politics ; Economics -- Pt. 2. High Stalinism. Reactionary enemies ; Internal enemies ; Homo Sovieticus ; Socialist realism ; Ideal cities ; Reluctant collaborators ; Passive opponents ; Revolutions -- Epilogue.
520 $aIn the follow-up to her previous book "Gulag," the author, a journalist delivers a 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. Josef Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to Communism, a completely new political and moral system. In this book, the author 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 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. Today the Soviet Bloc is a lost civilization, one whose cruelty, paranoia, bizarre morality, and strange aesthetics is captured in the pages of this book.
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651 0 $aEurope, Eastern$xPolitics and government$y1945-1989.
651 0 $aEurope, Eastern$xSocial conditions$y20th century.
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650 0 $aCommunism$zEurope, Eastern$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aCommunism$xSocial aspects$zEurope, Eastern$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aPolitical culture$zEurope, Eastern$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aPolitical persecution$zEurope, Eastern$xHistory$y20th century.
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