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.
Record details
ISBN:0385515693 (hardcover)
ISBN:9780385515696 (hardcover)
Physical Description:xxxvi, 566 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm. print
Edition:1st United States ed.
Publisher:New York : Doubleday, c2012.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [475]-541) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction -- Part 1. False dawn -- Zero hour -- Victors -- Communists -- Policemen -- Violence -- Ethnic cleansing -- Youth -- Radio -- Politics -- Economics -- Part 2. High Stalinism -- Reactionary enemies -- Internal enemies -- Homo Sovieticus -- Socialist realism -- Ideal cities -- Reluctant collaborators -- Passive opponents -- Revolutions -- Epilogue.
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