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Auteur(s) : Applebaum, Anne (1964-....)
Titre(s) : Iron curtain [Texte imprimé] : the crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 / Anne Applebaum
Publication : New York : Doubleday, c2012
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xxxvi, 566 p.) : ill., maps ; 25 cm
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. [475]-541) and index
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
Sujet(s) : Relations extérieures -- Europe de l'Est -- URSS -- 20e siècle
Conditions sociales -- Europe de l'Est -- 20e siècle
Conditions sociales -- Pays socialistes -- 20e siècle
Politique et gouvernement -- Pays socialistes -- 1945-1990
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780385515696 (hardcover). - ISBN 0385515693 (hardcover)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43623413h
Notice n° :
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