Iron Curtain
by Anne Applebaum
How the Soviets crushed Eastern Europe 1944–1956: secret police, youth groups, radio, the destruction of civil society. Institutional history of takeover.
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you want how free societies were dismantled step by step.
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Skip it if…
you want the Cold War broadly.
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Three things you will actually use
- Takeover is incremental.
- Civil society is the target.
- Watch the youth groups and the radio.
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Read the chapters on civil society.
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