Iron Curtain
The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1945-1956. Nominiert: National Book Awards 2012
(Sprache: Englisch)
In The Iron Curtain, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Applebaum 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...
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In The Iron Curtain, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Applebaum 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 devastating 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 Applebaum captures in the electrifying pages of 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 II, the Soviet Union to its surprise and delight found itself in control of a huge swath of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to Communism, a completely new political and moral system. In Iron Curtain, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Applebaum 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 devastating 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 Applebaum captures in the electrifying pages of Iron Curtain.
Autoren-Porträt von Anne Applebaum
Anne Applebaum, geboren 1964 in Washington, D. C., ist Historikerin und Journalistin. Sie begann ihre Karriere 1988 als Korrespondentin des Economist in Warschau, von wo sie über den Zusammenbruch des Kommunismus berichtete. Heute ist sie Direktorin des Legatum-Instituts in London und schreibt als Kolumnistin für Slate und Washington Post. Für ihre publizistische Arbeit wurde sie mit dem Adolph Bentinck Prize for European Non-fiction ausgezeichnet, dem Duff-Cooper- und dem Pulitzer-Preis. Applebaum ist mit dem polnischen Autor und Außenminister Radek Sikorski verheiratet und lebt in Warschau.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Anne Applebaum
- 2012, 608 Seiten, mit Abbildungen, Maße: 16,7 x 25,2 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- ISBN-10: 0385515693
- ISBN-13: 9780385515696
Sprache:
Englisch
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