{"product_id":"iron-curtain-the-crushing-of-eastern-europe-1944-1957","title":"Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956","description":"National Book Award Finalist\nTIME Magazine's #1 Nonfiction Book of 2012\nA New York Times Notable Book\nA Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2012\nBest Nonfiction of 2012: The Wall Street Journal, The Plain Dealer\n\nIn the much-anticipated 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. Iron Curtain describes 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\u003eASIN: 140009593X\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.140009593X.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Applebaum, Anne\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41736122171450,"sku":"DBV.140009593X.G","price":8.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/140009593X-0_c8e794e2-56d8-4ece-8cad-43055db67d53.jpg?v=1791605202","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/iron-curtain-the-crushing-of-eastern-europe-1944-1957","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}