PublishedAllen Lane, November 2012 |
ISBN9780713998689 |
FormatHardcover, 512 pages |
Dimensions24cm × 16.2cm × 4.4cm |
Once the Nazis were defeated in 1945, the people of Central and Eastern Europe expected to recover the lives they had led before 1939. Instead, they found themselves subjected to a tyranny that was in many ways as inhuman as the one which they had just escaped.
This book explains how Communism was imposed on these previously free societies in the decade after the end of the Second World War. Ranging widely across new archival material and many sources unknown in English, Applebaum follows the communists' tactics as they bullied, threatened and murdered their way to power. She also chronicles individual lives to show the rapid choices people had to make - to fight, to flee, or to collaborate.
