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

21 hrs. 14 min.

Language Russian

Author Anne Applebaum

Narrator Konstantin Korolkov

Description

Anne Applebaum explores how communist regimes were formed and developed in Eastern European countries after World War II. She analyzes events that took place in the countries liberated by the Red Army—such as Hungary, East Germany, and Poland—using materials from archives and testimonies of eyewitnesses. Applebaum reconstructs various aspects of social-political and economic processes in these countries, paying attention to the mechanisms of propaganda, political control, and the role of secret services in suppressing the opposition. She also shows why the collapse of the “Eastern bloc” became inevitable after the fall of the Soviet Union and the collapse of the Iron Curtain.