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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Anne Applebaum |
ISBN: | 9780385515696 0385515693 9780713998689 0713998687 |
OCLC Number: | 776519682 |
Description: | xxxvi, 566 pages, [28] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
Contents: | 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. |
Responsibility: | Anne Applebaum. |
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Iron Curtain is an exceptionally important book which effectively challenges many of the myths of the origins of the Cold War. It is wise, perceptive, remarkably objective and brilliantly researched. -- Antony Beevor Anne Applebaum's Iron Curtain [is] certainly the best work of modern history I have ever read. -- A.N. Wilson * Financial Times * Applebaum's description of this remarkable time is everything a good history book should be: brilliantly and comprehensively researched, beautifully and shockingly told, encyclopedic in scope, meticulous in detail... it is a true masterpiece. -- Keith Lowe * Sunday Telegraph * In her relentless quest for understanding, Applebaum shines light into forgotten worlds of human hope, suffering and dignity... Others have told us of the politics of this time. Applebaum does that but also shows what politics meant to people's lives, in an era when the state did more to shape individual destinies than at any time in history. -- John Connelly * Washington Post * Iron Curtain is modern history writing at its very best; assiduously researched, it wears its author's considerable erudition lightly. It sets a new benchmark for the study of this vitally important subject. -- Roger Moorhouse * Independent on Sunday * Anne Applebaum's masterly book gives for the first time, a systematic explanation of the other, largely untold, side of the story... it is a window into a world of lies and evil that we can hardly imagine. -- Edward Lucas * Standpoint * Read more...


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