Iron curtain, the crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956, Anne Applebaum
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Label
Iron curtain, the crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956, Anne Applebaum
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-541) and index
Illustrations
mapsplatesillustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Iron curtain
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
776519682
Responsibility statement
Anne Applebaum
Sub title
the crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
Summary
In 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
Table Of Contents
pt. 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
Creator
Subject
- Politisk förföljelse
- Communist countries -- Social conditions
- Political persecution -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century
- Europe de l'Est -- Relations -- URSS
- Europe, Eastern -- Relations -- Soviet Union
- Soviet Union -- Relations -- Europe, Eastern
- Alltag
- Communist countries -- Politics and government
- 1944-1956.
- Europe de l'Est -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1945-1989
- Europe de l'Est -- Conditions sociales -- 20e siècle
- Historia
- Europe, Eastern -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989
- Répression politique -- Europe de l'Est -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Politisk kultur
- Communism -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century
- Europe, Eastern -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Political culture -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century
- Sociala förhållanden
- Östeuropa
- Stalinismus
- Communism + Social aspects -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century
- Ostmitteleuropa
- Sovjetunionen
- Pays socialistes -- Conditions sociales
- Kommunism
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Author
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Incoming Resources
- Has instance2
Outgoing Resources
- Creator1
- Subject26
- Politisk förföljelse
- Communist countries -- Social conditions
- Political persecution -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century
- Europe de l'Est -- Relations -- URSS
- Europe, Eastern -- Relations -- Soviet Union
- Soviet Union -- Relations -- Europe, Eastern
- Alltag
- Communist countries -- Politics and government
- 1944-1956.
- Europe de l'Est -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1945-1989
- Europe de l'Est -- Conditions sociales -- 20e siècle
- Historia
- Europe, Eastern -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989
- Répression politique -- Europe de l'Est -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Politisk kultur
- Communism -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century
- Europe, Eastern -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Political culture -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century
- Sociala förhållanden
- Östeuropa
- Stalinismus
- Communism + Social aspects -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century
- Ostmitteleuropa
- Sovjetunionen
- Pays socialistes -- Conditions sociales
- Kommunism
- Content1
- Author1
- Mapped to1