Iron curtain : the crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 / Anne Applebaum.
2012
DJK45.S65 A67 2012 (Mapit)
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Title
Iron curtain : the crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 / Anne Applebaum.
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Edition
1st United States ed.
ISBN
9780385515696
0385515693
0385515693
Publication Details
New York : Doubleday, c2012.
Language
English
Description
xxxvi, 566 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Call Number
DJK45.S65 A67 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
947.0009/045
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [475]-541) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Part 1. False dawn
Zero hour
Victors
Communists
Policemen
Violence
Ethnic cleansing
Youth
Radio
Politics
Economics
Part 2. High Stalinism
Reactionary enemies
Internal enemies
Homo Sovieticus
Socialist realism
Ideal cities
Reluctant collaborators
Passive opponents
Revolutions
Epilogue.
Part 1. False dawn
Zero hour
Victors
Communists
Policemen
Violence
Ethnic cleansing
Youth
Radio
Politics
Economics
Part 2. High Stalinism
Reactionary enemies
Internal enemies
Homo Sovieticus
Socialist realism
Ideal cities
Reluctant collaborators
Passive opponents
Revolutions
Epilogue.