Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
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Books on Tape , 2012.
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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.
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eAudiobook
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Unabridged
Street Date
10/30/2012
Language
English
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9780307938855
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Applebaum, A., & Campbell, C. (2012). Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 (Unabridged). Books on Tape.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Applebaum, Anne and Cassandra Campbell. 2012. Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956. Books on Tape.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Applebaum, Anne and Cassandra Campbell. Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 Books on Tape, 2012.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Applebaum, A. and Campbell, C. (2012). Iron curtain: the crushing of eastern europe, 1944-1956. Unabridged Books on Tape.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Applebaum, Anne, and Cassandra Campbell. Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 Unabridged, Books on Tape, 2012.
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