Iron Curtain 1987

Author : Raf Beuy
Publisher : Kawoom Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783982406428

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Iron Curtain 1987 by Raf Beuy Pdf

The Wall is in Berlin, Gorbachev is in the Kremlin, and the gloomy American citizen Adam Hedman is trapped behind the Iron Curtain in the German East. A dangerous game begins when a coworker’s sister vanishes under mysterious circumstances, sparking Adam’s fighting spirit again. A fast-paced adventure brings our hero as far as Russia. Always at his back are the German Stasi and the Russian KGB. Who will win this high-stakes game of life and death? Iron Curtain is the first novel of the Adam Hedman trilogy, set in the last two decades of the Socialist East. Be prepared for an intelligent read if you’re into historical suspense with a twist.

Author : Bruce L. Brager
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989
ISBN : 9780791078327

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The Iron Curtain by Bruce L. Brager Pdf

Visiting Central Europe, in 1962, a visitor would not see a real "Iron Curtain." There was no huge piece of grim drapery splitting Europe between Communist dictatorships and democracies. The Iron Curtain represented the Central European part of the Cold War, the generally peaceful, but highly dangerous, forty-year competition between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union and its allies. The Iron Curtain symbolically represented the attempt to permanently, artificially, and arbitrarily split one part of Central Europe from the other. Although there was no real iron curtain, there was lots of steel in the form of barbed wire, ground radar, watchtowers, and machine guns in the hands of troops willing to use them. The boundary between democracy and totalitarianism was clear. This book tells the story of the Iron Curtain, and the Cold War it so vividly represented, from the start of World War II to its end with the dramatic fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Book jacket.

Author : Marcin Sitko
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8363037222

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Marillion by Marcin Sitko Pdf

Author : Anne Applebaum
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 803 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385536431

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Iron Curtain by Anne Applebaum Pdf

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. At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union to its surprise and delight found itself in control of a huge swath of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to Communism, a completely new political and moral system. In Iron Curtain, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Applebaum describes how the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe were created and what daily life was like once they were complete. She draws on newly opened East European archives, interviews, and personal accounts translated for the first time to portray in devastating 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. Today the Soviet Bloc is a lost civilization, one whose cruelty, paranoia, bizarre morality, and strange aesthetics Applebaum captures in the electrifying pages of Iron Curtain.

Author : Jim Willis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313397639

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Daily Life behind the Iron Curtain by Jim Willis Pdf

This compelling book describes how everyday people courageously survived under repressive Communist regimes until the voices and actions of rebellious individuals resulted in the fall of the Iron Curtain in Europe. Part of Greenwood's Daily Life through History series, Daily Life behind the Iron Curtain enables today's generations to understand what it was like for those living in Eastern Europe during the Cold War, particularly the period from 1961 to 1989, the era during which these people-East Germans in particular-lived in the imposing shadow of the Berlin Wall. An introductory chapter discusses the Russian Revolution, the end of World War II, and the establishment of the Socialist state, clarifying the reasons for the construction of the Berlin Wall. Many historical anecdotes bring these past experiences to life, covering all aspects of life behind the Iron Curtain, including separation of families and the effects on family life, diet, rationing, media, clothing and trends, strict travel restrictions, defection attempts, and the evolving political climate. The final chapter describes Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin wall and the slow assimilation of East into West, and examines Europe after Communism.

Author : Vesna Goldsworthy
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781324021735

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Iron Curtain: A Love Story by Vesna Goldsworthy Pdf

East and West collide in a “timely” and “bittersweet tale of loyalty, love, and the siren call of freedom” (Rebecca Abrams, Financial Times). Milena Urbanska is a red princess living in a Soviet satellite state in the 1980s. She enjoys limitless luxury and limited freedom; the end of the Cold War seems unimaginable. When she meets Jason, a confident but politically naive British poet, they fall into bed together. Before long, Milena is planning her escape. She follows Jason to London, where she’s shocked to find herself living in bohemian poverty. The rented apartment is dingy, the food disgusting, and Jason’s family withholding, but at least there are no hidden cameras recording her every move. As she adjusts to her new life, however, Milena discovers the dark side of Jason’s idea of freedom. With cool wit and tender precision, Vesna Goldsworthy delivers a razor-sharp vision of two worlds on the brink of change, amidst the failures of family and state. Iron Curtain is a sly, elegant comedy of manners that challenges the myths we tell ourselves.

Author : Poul Villaume,Odd Arne Westad
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Cold War
ISBN : 9788763525886

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Perforating the Iron Curtain by Poul Villaume,Odd Arne Westad Pdf

Cold War history research of the recent years suggests that the East-West detente process of the 1970s was a more significant element than previously believed in understanding and explaining the processes, on both sides of the East-West divide, which led to the peaceful end of the Cold War in the late 1980s. This anthology is a contribution to this research. The dozen articles elucidate the European detente process from grass-root - as well as diplomatic - levels, including the Helsinki Conference Final Act of 1975 on respect of human rights and human contacts across the Iron Curtain of the Cold War. The articles are based on recently opened state and private archives from West and East Europe, as well as the US. They are written by a mix of internationally distinguished senior scholars and younger promising researchers from the US, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Italy, and Denmark.

Author : Fraser J. Harbutt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1988-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195363777

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The Iron Curtain by Fraser J. Harbutt Pdf

It was forty-two years ago that Winston Churchill made his famous speech in Fulton, Missouri, in which he popularized the phrase "Iron Curtain." This speech, according to Fraser Harbutt, set forth the basic Western ideology of the coming East-West struggle. It was also a calculated move within, and a dramatic public definition of, the Truman administration's concurrent turn from accommodation to confrontation with the Soviet Union. It provoked a response from Stalin that goes far to explain the advent of the Cold War a few weeks later. This book is at once a fascinating biography of Winston Churchill as the leading protagonist of an Anglo-American political and military front against the Soviet Union and a penetrating re-examination of diplomatic relations between the United States, Great Britain, and the U.S.S.R. in the postwar years. Pointing out the Americocentric bias in most histories of this period, Harbutt shows that the Europeans played a more significant part in precipitating the Cold War than most people realize. He stresses that the same pattern of events that earlier led America belatedly into two world wars, namely the initial separation and then the sudden coming together of the European and American political arenas, appeared here as well. From the combination of biographical and structural approaches, a new historical landscape emerges. The United States appears at times to be the rather passive object of competing Soviet and British maneuvers. The turning point came with the crisis of early 1946, which here receives its fullest analysis to date, when the Truman administration in a systematic but carefully veiled and still widely misunderstood reorientation of policy (in which Churchill figured prominently) led the Soviet Union into the political confrontation that brought on the Cold War.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1403133141

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Iron Curtain by Anonim Pdf

Author : Patrick Wright
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199239689

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Iron Curtain by Patrick Wright Pdf

'From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. . .' With these words Winston Churchill famously warned the world in a now legendary speech given in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946. Launched as an evocative metaphor, the 'Iron Curtain' quickly became a brutal reality in the Cold War between Capitalist West and Communist East. Not surprisingly, for many years, people on both sides of the division have assumed that the story of the Iron Curtain began with Churchill's 1946 speech.In this fascinating investigation, Patrick Wright shows that this was decidedly not the case. Starting with its original use to describe an anti-fire device fitted into theatres, Iron Curtain tells the story of how the term evolved into such a powerful metaphor and the myriad ways in which it shapedthe world for decades before the onset of the Cold War. Along the way, it offers fascinating perspectives on a rich array of historical characters and developments, from the lofty aspirations and disappointed fate of early twentieth century internationalists, through the topsy-turvy experiences of the first travellers to Soviet Russia, to thetheatricalization of modern politics and international relations. And, as Wright poignantly suggests, the term captures a particular way of thinking about the world that long pre-dates the Cold War - and did not disappear with the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Author : Igor Gouzenko
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Refugees
ISBN : OCLC:318935505

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The Iron Curtain by Igor Gouzenko Pdf

Author : Klára Šabatová,Laura Dietrich,Oliver Dietrich,Anthony Harding,Viktória Kiss
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789694550

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Bringing Down the Iron Curtain by Klára Šabatová,Laura Dietrich,Oliver Dietrich,Anthony Harding,Viktória Kiss Pdf

Since the fall of communism, archaeological research in Central and Eastern European countries has seen a large influx of new projects and ideas, fueled by bilateral contacts, Europe-wide circulation of scholars and access to research literature. This volume is the first study which relates these issues specifically to Bronze Age Archaeology.

Author : Peter Molloy
Publisher : BBC Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124166294

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The Lost World of Communism by Peter Molloy Pdf

1989 was a year of revolution: it marked the collapse of communism in Eastern and Central Europe and an end to an entire way of life for millions of people behind the Iron Curtain. This title collects testimony of the people who lived in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Romania during the Cold War era.

Author : Igor Gouzenko,Andy O'Brien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Photoplay editions
ISBN : 0598985492

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The Iron Curtain by Igor Gouzenko,Andy O'Brien Pdf

Written partly in English and partly in Russian and rewritten by A.W. O'Brien of Montreal. Also pub. in Canada under title: This was my choice.

Author : Anne Applebaum
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 014102187X

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Iron Curtain by Anne Applebaum Pdf

At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union unexpectedly found itself in control of a huge swathe of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to a completely new political and moral system- Communism. Anne Applebaum's landmark history of this brutal time shows how societies were ruthlessly eviscerated by Communist regimes, how opposition was destroyed and what life was like for ordinary people who had to choose whether to fight, to flee or to collaborate. Iron Curtainis an exceptional work of historical and moral reckoning, and a haunting reminder of how fragile freedom can be. Chosen 16 times as a 'Book of the Year' - The top Non-Fiction pick of 2012'The best work of modern history I have ever read.' A. N. Wilson, Financial Times'The outstanding book of the year . . . a masterpiece.' Oliver Kamm, The Times, Books of the Year 'Exceptionally important, wise, perceptive, remarkably objective.' Antony Beevor 'Explains in a manner worthy of Arthur Koestler what totalitarianism really means . . . it is a window into a world of lies and evil that we can hardly imagine.' Edward Lucas, Standpoint 'At last the story can be told . . . a magisterial history.' Orlando Figes, Mail on Sunday