National Book Award Finalist TIME Magazine's #1 Nonfiction Book of 2012A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2012Best 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 II 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.
#52368 in Books 2010-01-13Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.10 x 1.60 x 7.30l; 2.74 #File Name: 0137037414720 pages
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy EthanThanks for the book1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Great text bookBy LukeGreat text book!Faults: No pictures and no diagrams but...Assets: The book incorporates years of historical and economic debate in succinct explanations. The writing is clear; very witty and tells the STORY of American Economic History in an engaging and meaningful way. The book contains more of an historical perspective with an economic lens; than an economic principles perspective applied to history.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. 8th Edition of American Economic HistoryBy D-DenverOutstanding! Well-written; detailed; clearly links events and shows how consequences flow from them. Bought for a class; but kept because it's just too darn good to let go of.
