Iron Curtain
Book description
Chosen 16 times as a 'Book of the Year' - the top non-fiction pick of 2012
'The best work of modern history I have ever read' A. N. Wilson, Financial Times
At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union unexpectedly found itself in control of a huge…
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People in the West tend to celebrate 1945 as a year of liberation; but, of course, in Eastern Europe, the defeat of Germany merely heralded the beginning of four more decades of repression. In this book, Anne Applebaum describes the Communist takeover of three European countries – East Germany, Poland, and Hungary. It’s a masterpiece both of research and of analysis. Communism, just like capitalism, had many faces: this book shows brilliantly just how varied repression can be. In 2013 it won the lucrative Cundill Prize, and deservedly so.
From Keith's list on the aftermath of World War 2.
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