Cfp: Political Exile from Central and Eastern Europe
Call for Papers – “Political Exile from Central and Eastern Europe. Motives, Strategies, Activities and Perception in the East and the West 1945-1989” Bratislava, Slovakia November 19-20, 2013 Deadline for submitting abstracts: July 15, 2013 The Nation’s Memory Institute (Ústav pamäti národa, Slovakia) and European Network Remembrance and Solidarity (Warsaw) in collaboration with the Institute of National Remembrance...
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
Anne Applebaum Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 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...
