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Sto caricando le informazioni... Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 (edizione 2013)di Anne Applebaum (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Al final de la segunda guerra mundial la Unión Soviética controlaba una inmensa extensión de territorio en Europa oriental. Stalin y su policía secreta emprendieron la conversión de doce países radicalmente diferentes a un sistema político y moral totalmente nuevo: el comunismo. La premiada historiadora Anne Applebaum (autora de Gulag, que obtuvo el premio Pulitzer) presenta en El telón de acero la obra definitiva sobre cómo se dividió Europa y cómo era la vida al otro lado. Applebaum describe con pavoroso detalle cómo los partidos políticos, la iglesia, los medios, las organizaciones juveniles, en suma, todas la instituciones de la sociedad civil, fueron rápidamente desmembradas. Explica cómo se organizó la policía secreta y cómo todas las formas de oposición fueron atacadas y destruidas. A partir de documentos inaccesibles hasta hace poco y fuentes desconocidas en occidente, Applebaum sigue la táctica comunista en su camino al poder, las amenazas, los abusos y los asesinatos. También narra historias individuales para mostrar las opciones que se presentaban a la gente: luchar, huir o colaborar. En un periodo de tiempo asombrosamente breve, Europa oriental fue estalinizada por completo. El telón de acero es la deslumbrante historia de un periodo brutal y un preocupante recordatorio de cuán frágiles son las sociedades libres. This book begins with the Yalta Conference and ends with the Hungarian Uprising. And tells the story of how Stalin and his secret police chief Beria set out to convert a dozen very different easter European countries to communism. Applebaum describes in frightening detail how the lives of people in these countries was turned upside down when the new ruling regimes challenged every belief they held and took away almost everything they had accumulated. The Soviet bloc collapsed 32 years ago so Applebaum’s picture of this lost civilization that was governed through cruelty, paranoia, bizarre morality, and strange aesthetics is riveting. A história da vida por trás da Cortina de Ferro, de Anne Applebaum. Depois da derrota dos Nazis em 1945, os povos da Europa Central e de Leste esperavam recuperar a vida que levavam antes de 1939. No entanto, viram-se submetidos a uma tirania tão desumana quanto aquela à qual tinham acabado de escapar. Este livro explica como o Comunismo foi imposto nestas sociedades outrora democráticas na década que se seguiu ao fim da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Applebaum descreve, com pormenores sóbrios mas devastadores, como é que os partidos políticos, a Igreja, os meios de comunicação social, as associações de jovens – as instituições da sociedade civil a todos os níveis – foram rapidamente esventradas. Apoiando-se em novo material de arquivo e em inúmeras fontes, Anne Applebaum segue as táticas dos comunistas à medida que abriam caminho para o poder através de violência, ameaças e assassínios, ao mesmo tempo que conta histórias de vidas particulares para demonstrar a rapidez com que as pessoas tinham de escolher entre lutar, fugir ou colaborar. Num espaço de tempo incrivelmente curto após ao fim da guerra, a Europa de Leste foi estalinizada de forma implacável. "A Cortina de Ferro" é um brilhante relato histórico de um período marcante da história da Europa, mas também uma advertência sobre o quão frágeis são as sociedades livres e quão vulneráveis podem ser ao ataque de inimigos determinados e sem escrúpulos.
Anne Applebaum, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 (2012). Applebaum’s tour-de-force describes how the Iron Curtain descended on Eastern Europe. What distinguishes her writing is that she goes beyond describing how Josef Stalin succeeded in imposing his domination over Eastern Europe to describe the lives of ordinary people suddenly forced to live under Soviet rule. The Polish story is the heart of Anne Applebaum’s remarkable book, “Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe” (Doubleday), a book that reanimates a world that was largely hidden from Western eyes, and that many people who lived and suffered in it would prefer to forget. Applebaum writes movingly and with insight into the “tiny compromises” made by ordinary people, not to say the terrors they faced. She uses the stories of everyday life, gleaned from a huge range of sources and interviews, to show how tyranny insinuates itself into societies and how people learnt to survive. Applebaum takes us into the dark heart of totalitarianism. In her relentless quest for understanding, Applebaum shines light into forgotten worlds of human hope, suffering and dignity. Those who know little of Europe behind the Iron Curtain will find themselves edified; those who know much will learn much more. Others have told us of the politics of this time. Applebaum does that but also shows what politics meant to people’s lives, in an era when the state did more to shape individual destinies than at any time in history. A Russian woman who visited East Germany in 1986 on a Soviet school trip described to me recently how their East German official hosts explained the Berlin wall as a necessary defence against the hordes of West Germans who wished to storm into East Germany to escape West German economic misery and join in East Germany's success. And she and her 13-year-old Soviet friends had at the time no reason to doubt this, never in their lives having been told anything different. The eventual complete collapse of communism in eastern Europe has naturally tended to focus subsequent attention on its shambolic and incompetent aspects; but its effectiveness as a system of thought control should not be underestimated...... Appartiene alle Collane EditorialiPremi e riconoscimentiMenzioniElenchi di rilievo
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HTML: 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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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What was most shocking to me was the way that the Red Army and the Soviet government treated potential allies in the Polish Home Army, and other anti-Nazi leftists. Some of the concentration camps used in the Holocaust were reused to imprison political dissidents. Some people who were liberated from concentration camps were then sent to the Gulag for not being "politically correct". The communist project in Eastern Europe might have been more successful if they had not sown such bitter seeds at the beginning. ( )