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...
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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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Podrobně a se smyslem pro detail popsané poválečné obobí, kdy byl ve východní Evropě instalován komunismus. Československu se autorka věnuje okrajově. Zajímavá kniha mapující způsob, jakým se ponořila východní Evropa do temnoty bolševického totalitarismu sovětského typu. Na jednotlivých oblastech veřejného života autorka ukazuje jak byly tyto postupně podřizovány jediné autoritě a moci.