Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56
by Anne Applebaum
***Winner of the 2013 Cundill History Prize***
In Iron Curtain Anne Applebaum traces the imposition of Soviet totalitarianism on Eastern Europe in the decade after World War II.
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