Iron Curtain
by Anne Applebaum · Allen Lane
Applebaum reconstructs how Soviet power was imposed on Poland, Hungary, and East Germany between 1944 and 1956, using archives and interviews. Shows the mechanics of Stalinisation: secret police, youth groups, media capture, and the destruction of civil society.
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