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National Book Award Finalist
TIME Magazine''s #1 Nonfiction Book of 2012
A New York Times Notable Book
A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2012
Best Nonfiction of 2012: The Wall Street Journal, The Plain Dealer

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 eve

Iron Curtain

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      Publisher: Random House USA Inc
      Publication Date: 13/08/2013
      ISBN13: 9781400095933, 978-1400095933
      ISBN10: 140009593X
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      Political ideologies and movements Political science and theory

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      National Book Award Finalist
      TIME Magazine''s #1 Nonfiction Book of 2012
      A New York Times Notable Book
      A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2012
      Best Nonfiction of 2012: The Wall Street Journal, The Plain Dealer

      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 eve

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