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Iron Curtain by Anne Applebaum
National Book Award FinalistTIME 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 I 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.
Anne Applebaum is a Washington Post columnist and member of the editorial board. She has worked as the foreign and deputy editor of the Spectator (London), as the Warsaw correspondent for the Economist, and as a columnist for the online magazine Slate, as well as for various British publications. She is a Yale graduate and a Marshall Scholar. Her writing has also featured in a variety of periodicals, including the New York Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, and the Wall Street Journal. She and her husband, Radek Sikorski, live in Washington, D.C., with their two children.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780385515696 |
| ISBN 10 | 0385515693 |
| Title | Iron Curtain |
| Author | Anne Applebaum |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2012-10-30 |
| Number of pages | 608 |
| Prizes | Winner of Cundill Prize 2013, Commended for National Book Awards (Nonfiction) 2012, Commended for Literary Award (Nonfiction) 2013 |
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