Iron Curtain
The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956
Ranked #11 in The Cold War, Ranked #14 in Communism — see more rankings.
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... more
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... more
Rankings by Category
Iron Curtain is ranked in the following categories:
- #17 in European History
- #58 in Poland
- #34 in Russian History
- #95 in Socialism
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