The views expressed are those of the author and do not represent the views of the SNF Agora Institute or Johns Hopkins University.In the much-anticipated follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winningGulag, 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.Iron Curtaindescribes how, spurred by Stalin and his secret police, the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe were created and what daily life was like once they were complete. Drawing on newly opened East European archives, interviews, and personal accounts translated for the first time, Applebaum portrays in chilling detail the dilemmas faced by millions of individuals trying to adjust to a way of life that challenged their every belief and took away everything they had accumulated. As a result the Soviet Bloc became a lost civilization, one whose cruelty, paranoia, bizarre morality, and strange aesthetics Applebaum captures in these electrifying pages.Buy Now
Agora
noun/ag-er-uh/Literally “A gathering place,” the agora is an open space that served as a meeting ground for various activities of the citizens in ancient Greece.
