IronCurtain

Copyright © 2012 by Anne Applebaum Signal is an imprint of McClelland & Stewart, a division of Random House of Canada Limited Published simultaneously in the United States of American by Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Great Britain by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Group Ltd, London. All rights reserved. The use of any part of this publication reproduced, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system, without the prior written consent of the publisher – or, in case of photocopying or other reprographic copying, a licence from the Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency – is an infringement of the copyright law. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Applebaum, Anne, 1964- Iron curtain : the crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-1956 / Anne Applebaum. Includes bibliographical references. eISBN: 978-0-7710-0765-1 1. Europe, Eastern – Politics and government – 1945-1989. 2. Europe, Eastern – Social conditions. 3. Communism – Europe, Eastern. I. Title. DJK50.A66 2012 DJK50.A66 2012 C2012-90351......