Summary
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. Full description
- Introduction
- Part 1. False dawn
- Zero hour
- Victors
- Communists
- Policemen
- Violence
- Ethnic cleansing
- Youth
- Radio
- Politics
- Economics
- Part 2. High Stalinism
- Reactionary enemies
- Internal enemies
- Homo Sovieticus
- Socialist realism
- Ideal cities
- Reluctant collaborators
- Passive opponents
- Revolutions
- Epilogue.