{"product_id":"iron-curtain-the-crushing-of-eastern-europe-1944-1956-9781400095933","title":"Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956","description":"\u003cb\u003eNational Book Award Finalist \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine's #1 Nonfiction Book of 2012\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e Top Ten Book of 2012\u003cbr\u003eBest Nonfiction of 2012: \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Plain Dealer\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the much-anticipated follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eGulag\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003ci\u003eIron Curtain \u003c\/i\u003edescribes 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne Applebaum\u003c\/b\u003e is a columnist for \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e. Her previous book, \u003ci\u003eGulag\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction and was a finalist for three other major prizes. Her essays appear in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e. She is married to Radek Sikorski, the Polish Foreign Minister.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Anchor Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50626592375058,"sku":"9781400095933","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_575f624c-3cc1-43e8-8f42-4604310b11d8.jpg?v=1732662417","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/iron-curtain-the-crushing-of-eastern-europe-1944-1956-9781400095933","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}