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  • Iron Curtain

  • The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
  • Von: Anne Applebaum
  • Gesprochen von: Cassandra Campbell
  • Spieldauer: 26 Std. und 39 Min.
  • 4,7 out of 5 stars (19 Bewertungen)

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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.

©2012 Anne Applebaum (P)2012 Random House Audio
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"So much effort is spent trying to understand democratization these days, and so little is spent trying to understand the opposite processes. Anne Applebaum corrects that imbalance, explaining how and why societies succumb to totalitarian rule. Iron Curtain is a deeply researched and eloquent description of events which took place not long ago and in places not far away - events which contain many lessons for the present." (Fareed Zakaria, author of The Post-American World)
" 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, author of Stalingrad and The Second World War)
"This dramatic book gives us, for the first time, the testimony of dozens of men and women who found themselves in the middle of one of the most traumatic periods of European history. Anne Applebaum conveys the impact of politics and ideology on individual lives with extraordinary immediacy." (Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire and A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War)

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Totalitarian regimes from the bottom up

As someone who has dedicated decades to the study of Eastern Europe, both pre- and post-1989, I found Dr Applebaum's work to be innovative, informative and even entertaining. I would have preferred more attention be given to Czechoslovakia and perhaps Romania, but understand that the volume would have had to be considerably longer. Ms. Campbell's performance as narrator deserves high praise as well.

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an epic book, fun to listen to but...

I am German native, born in east Germany shortly before the wall was falling. I learned a lot about east Germany but also about other members of the eastern block. if you are remotely interested in the history of the eastern block, go for it.

the only negative was the pronunciation of German names and quotes. A lot of them were not to understand at all. Even as a native speaker.
Now I don't expect correct prounciation. I know how difficult that would be for a non native. But maybe the producer could have hired a German speaker to help.

Nevertheless I liked this narration a lot!

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