Iron curtain

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At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union unexpectedly found itself in control of a huge swathe of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to a completely new political and moral system: communism. In Iron Curtain, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Anne Applebaum describes how the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe were created and what daily life was like once they were complete.

Applebaum describes in devastating detail how political parties, the church, the media, young people's organizations - the institutions of civil society on every level - were quickly eviscerated. She explains how the secret police services were organized, how the media came to be dominated by communists, and how all forms of opposition were undermined and destroyed. Ranging widely across new archival material and many sources unknown in English, she follows the communists' tactics as they bullied, threatened and murdered their way to power. She also chronicles individual lives to show the choices people had to make - to fight, to flee, or to collaborate.

Within a remarkably short period after the end of the war, Eastern Europe had been ruthlessly Stalinized. Iron Curtain is a brilliant history of a brutal period and a haunting reminder of how fragile free societies can be. Today the Soviet Bloc is a lost civilization, one whose cruelty, paranoia, bizarre morality, and strange aesthetics Anne Applebaum captures in the pages of this exceptional work of historical and moral reckoning.

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Discusses the creation of the communist regimes that took hold in eastern europe at the end of world war ii and describes what daily life was like in these countries in the author s follow up to the her pulitzer prize winning gulag 75 000 first printing Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 besteld, morgen in huis .. MEER INFO

Iron Curtain

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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 1 - 2 weken .. MEER INFO

Gulag A History

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Reveals one of the greatest horrors of the 20th century the system of soviet camps that are responsible for the deaths of countless millions this work presents history of the camp from its origins under the tsars to its colossal expansion under stalin s reign of terror its zenith in the late 19 Uiterlijk 17 januari in huis .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 06 juni 2013

Aantal pagina's: 613

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Anne Applebaum

Tweede Auteur: Applebaum Anne

Hoofduitgeverij: Penguin Books Ltd

Co Uitgever(s): PEN

Editie: 1

Product breedte: 128 mm

Product hoogte: 31 mm

Product lengte: 197 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 128 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 31 mm

Verpakking lengte: 197 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 479 g

EAN: 9780141021874

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