Iron Curtain
The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
National Book Award Finalist <BR>TIME Magazine's #1 Nonfiction Book of 2012<BR>A New York Times Notable Book<BR>A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2012<BR>Best Nonfiction of 2012: The Wall Street Journal, The Plain Dealer <BR><BR>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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National Book Award Finalist <BR>TIME Magazine's #1 Nonfiction Book of 2012<BR>A New York Times Notable Book<BR>A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2012<BR>Best Nonfiction of 2012: The Wall Street Journal, The Plain Dealer <BR><BR>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.
Untertitel
The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
H | B | T | Gramm
203 mm | 133 mm | 35 mm | 609 gr
Erscheinungsjahr
2013
FSK
0
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Taschenbuch
Verlag
Random House UK
ISBN-10
140009593x
ISBN-13
9781400095933
Autor
Anne Applebaum
Sprache
Englisch
Seitenanzahl
640
Themen
Geschichte anderer geografischer Gruppierungen und Regionen oder bestimmter Kulturen/Gesellschaften/Gruppen/Völker, Europäische Geschichte, UdSSR, Sowjetunion, Russland, Politische Ideologien und Bewegungen der extremen Linken, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Demokratische Ideologien und Bewegungen: Sozialismus, Mitte-links
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