书名：Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56
作者：Anne Applebaum
出版社名称：Penguin
出版时间：2013
语种：英文
ISBN：9780141021874
商品尺寸：12.9 x 2.9 x 19.8 cm
包装：平装
页数：656
Iron Curtain《铁幕》是美国历史学家安妮•阿普尔鲍姆（Anne Applebaum）所著的一本关于讲述1944年之后的东欧历史的著作。本书选择的是从1945到1956年这关键的12年时间，希望能够发现二战之后，在那些被战火蹂躏的土地上，那些经济政治、历史传统各不相同的国家，是如何变成意识形态高度统一的「铁幕」国家的。

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.
A haunting reminder of how fragile freedom can be, Iron Curtain is an exceptional work of historical and moral reckoning.

Review
'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
安妮·阿普尔鲍姆，《华盛顿邮报》专栏作家和编辑部成员（2002-2006）。毕业于耶鲁大学（1986），马歇尔奖学金获得者（1987）。曾担任（伦敦）《旁观者》杂志国外编辑，《经济学家》杂志驻华沙记者和网络杂志《石板》以及一些英国报纸的专栏作家。作品还发表在《纽约书评》、《外交季刊》、《华尔街日报》以及许多其他报纸刊物上。她的著作还有《东方与西方之间：跨越欧洲的中间地带》。

Anne Elizabeth Applebaum(born July 25, 1964) is an American born journalist and Pulitzer Prize–winning author who has written extensively about communism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe. She is a visiting Professor of Practice at the London School of Economics, where she runs Arena, a project on propaganda and disinformation. She has also been an editor at The Economist and The Spectator, and a member of the editorial board of The Washington Post (2002–06).