IronCurtain_TheCrushingofEasternEurope19.epub

ANNE APPLEBAUM Iron Curtain The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944–56 ALLEN LANE an imprint of PENGUIN BOOKS Contents A note about abbreviations and acronyms List of illustrations Maps Introduction PART ONE False Dawn 1 Zero hour 2 Victors 3 Communists 4 Policemen 5 Violence 6 Ethnic cleansing 7 Youth 8 Radio 9 Politics 10 Economics PART TWO High Stalinism 11 Reactionary enemies 12 Internal enemies 13 Homo sovieticus 14 Socialist realism 15 Ideal cities 16 Reluctant collaborators 17 Passive opponents 18 Revolutions Epilogue Illustrations Select bibliography Notes List of interviewees Acknowledgements The loss of freedom, tyranny, abuse, hunger would all have been easier to bear if not for the compulsion to call them freedom, justice, the good of the people … Lies, by their very nature partial and ephemeral, are revealed as lies when confronted with language’s striving for truth. But here all the means of disclosure had been permanently confiscated by the police. Aleksander Wat, My Century Individuals need not believe all these mystifications, but they must behave as though they did, or th......