Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
- ISBN-10
- 140009593X
- ISBN-13
- 9781400095933
- Series
- Iron Curtain
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 566
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-07
- Publisher
- Anchor Books
- Author
- Anne Applebaum
Description
Discusses the creation of the Communist regimes that took hold in Eastern Europe at the end of World War II and describes what daily life was like in these countries in the author's follow-up to the her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag. 75,000 first printing.
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