TY - BOOK AU - APPLEBAUM Anne TI - Iron curtain: the crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 SN - 9780385515696 (hbk.) : PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - Doubleday, KW - POLITICAL PERSECUTION KW - EUROPE EASTERN KW - SOCIAL CONDITIONS KW - COMMUNISTS COUNTRIES KW - POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [475]-541) and index N2 - 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 ER -