Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956

Iron Curtain by Anne Applebaum is a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II, revealing the dilemmas faced by millions of individuals who had to adjust to a way of life that challenged their every belief and took away everything they had accumulated.

With newly opened East European archives, interviews, and personal accounts translated for the first time, Applebaum captures in vivid detail the cruelty, paranoia, bizarre morality, and strange aesthetics of the Soviet Bloc.

This book is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the transformation of Eastern Europe under Communist rule and the impact it had on the lives of ordinary people.