Iron Curtain The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 2012 Retai

| Iron Curtain |
| |
| The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 |
| |
| |
| DATE: 2013-06-17 SIZE: 10,18MB DISKS: 03_______4,77MB PAGES: |
| |
| PUBLISHER: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group GENRE: History |
| |
| AUTHOR: Anne Applebaum |
| |
| FORMAT: EPUB PROTECTION: DRM EDITION: |
| |
| URL: http://www.booksamillion.com/p/Iron-Curtain/Applebaum-Anne/Q435481525 |
| |
| LANGUAGE: English ISBN: 978-0-385-53643-1 |
: :
: 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. :
: :
: 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. :
: Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different:
: countries to Communism, a completely new political and moral system. In :
: Iron Curtain, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Applebaum 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 devastating 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 Applebaum captures in the electrifying :
: pages of Iron Curtain. :