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Chargement... Rideau de fer. L'Europe de l'Est écrasée, 1944-1956par Anne Applebaum
   Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.   ) Nikoz | Apr 23, 2015 | 
Anne Applebaum, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 (2012). Applebaum’s tour-de-force describes how the Iron Curtain descended on Eastern Europe. What distinguishes her writing is that she goes beyond describing how Josef Stalin succeeded in imposing his domination over Eastern Europe to describe the lives of ordinary people suddenly forced to live under Soviet rule.  The Polish story is the heart of Anne Applebaum’s remarkable book, “Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe” (Doubleday), a book that reanimates a world that was largely hidden from Western eyes, and that many people who lived and suffered in it would prefer to forget. Applebaum writes movingly and with insight into the “tiny compromises” made by ordinary people, not to say the terrors they faced. She uses the stories of everyday life, gleaned from a huge range of sources and interviews, to show how tyranny insinuates itself into societies and how people learnt to survive. Applebaum takes us into the dark heart of totalitarianism. In her relentless quest for understanding, Applebaum shines light into forgotten worlds of human hope, suffering and dignity. Those who know little of Europe behind the Iron Curtain will find themselves edified; those who know much will learn much more. Others have told us of the politics of this time. Applebaum does that but also shows what politics meant to people’s lives, in an era when the state did more to shape individual destinies than at any time in history.  A Russian woman who visited East Germany in 1986 on a Soviet school trip described to me recently how their East German official hosts explained the Berlin wall as a necessary defence against the hordes of West Germans who wished to storm into East Germany to escape West German economic misery and join in East Germany's success. And she and her 13-year-old Soviet friends had at the time no reason to doubt this, never in their lives having been told anything different. The eventual complete collapse of communism in eastern Europe has naturally tended to focus subsequent attention on its shambolic and incompetent aspects; but its effectiveness as a system of thought control should not be underestimated...... Appartient à la série éditorialePrix et récompensesDistinctionsListes notables
La 4e de couv. indique : "Rideau de fer raconte, comme cela n'a jamais été fait, la manière dont les "terres de sang" - essentiellement trois pays emblématiques : Allemagne, Hongrie et Pologne - ont été soviétisées (réparations économiques, nettoyages ethniques systématiques que l'on associe rarement à cette période de l'Histoire, récupération partielle de l'appareil policier hérité du nazisme, etc.). S'interrogeant sur le "Haut Stalinisme" (1944-1956), soit les douze années de soviétisation de l'ancien "espace vital" (Lebensraum) nazi, Anne Applebaum [...] renverse complétement le point de vue : l'Est vu non plus par l'Ouest mais pas l'Est. Les sources écrites et orales inédites - archives, entretiens, voyages, témoignages personnels - enrichissent considérablement les réponses aux questions que l'observateur contemporain de l'Europe de l'Est se pose face aux échecs ou aux revers de la démocratisation des nouvelles nations émancipées du joug soviétique depuis 1989." Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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 Google Books — Chargement...GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)947.0009History and Geography Europe Russia and eastern Europe [and formerly Finland] Russian & Slavic History by Period RussiaClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne: (4.09)
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