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Red famine, stalin's war on ukraine, anne applebaumadvanced reading copy new condition great book, collection or paypal free postage thank you:) read more
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applebaum describes, in calm but devastating detail, how political parties, the church, the media, young people's organisations - the institutions of civil society on every level - were all quickly evisceratedfrom anne applebaum, comes a major new work of historical and moral reckoning: the story of life behind the iron curtainsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreranging widely across new archival material and many sources unknown in english, she follows the communists' tactics as they bullied, threatened and murdered their way to powerthe binding is sound, the corners are good and all the pages are clean and unmarkedthere is a little creasing to the top edge of the dust jacket and a little bumping to the top and bottom of the spineonce the nazis were defeated in , the people of central and eastern europe expected to recover the lives they had led beforewithin a remarkably short period after the end of the war, eastern europe had been ruthlessly stalinisediron curtain is a brilliant history of a brutal period in european history, but also a reminder of how fragile free societies are, and how vulnerable they can be to the predations of determined and unscrupulous enemiesinstead, they found themselves subjected to a tyranny that was in many ways as inhuman as the one which they had just escapedoxfam bookshop new milton used, very good condition, hard cover with dust jacketthis book explains how communism was imposed on these previously free societies in the decade after the end of the second world warshe also chronicles individual lives to show the rapid choices people had to make - to fight, to flee, or to collaborate
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