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Author : Melissa Feinberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 38,72 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 0190644613
Curtain of Lies tells the story of the struggle to define the truth of Eastern Europe between 1948 and 1956. It examines how actors on both sides of the Iron Curtain tried to create knowledge about Eastern Europe, and thus helped solidify the battle lines of the Cold War.
Author : Brian Evenson
Publisher : Coffee House Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 19,4 MB
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1566894255
"There is not a more intense, prolific, or apocalyptic writer of fiction in America than Brian Evenson."—George Saunders "A contemporary gothic tale about the apocalyptic connection between religion and violence."—Publishers Weekly When Rudd, a troubled teenager, embarks on a school research project, he runs across the secret Mormon ritual of blood sacrifice, and its role in a 1902 murder committed by the grandson of Brigham Young. Along with his newly discovered half-brother, Rudd becomes swept up in the psychological and atavistic effects of this violent, antique ritual.
Author : Anne Applebaum
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 803 pages
File Size : 16,56 MB
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0385536437
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. 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 how the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe were created and what daily life was like once they were complete. She draws on newly opened East European archives, interviews, and personal accounts translated for the first time to portray in devastating detail the dilemmas faced by millions of individuals trying to adjust to a way of life that challenged their every belief and took away everything they had accumulated. Today the Soviet Bloc is a lost civilization, one whose cruelty, paranoia, bizarre morality, and strange aesthetics Applebaum captures in the electrifying pages of Iron Curtain.
Author : Melissa Feinberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 38,73 MB
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 019064463X
While the Cold War governments of Eastern Europe operated within the confines of the Soviet worldview, their peoples confronted the narratives of both East and West. From the Soviet Union and its satellites, they heard of a West dominated by imperialist warmongers and of the glorious future only Communism could bring. A competing discourse emanated from the West, claiming that Eastern Europe was a totalitarian land of captive slaves, powerless in the face of Soviet aggression. In Curtain of Lies, Melissa Feinberg conducts a timely examination into the nature of truth, using the political culture of Eastern Europe during the Cold War as her foundation. Focusing on the period between 1948 and 1956, she looks at how the "truth" of Eastern Europe was delineated by actors on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Feinberg offers a fresh interpretation of the Cold War as a shared political environment, exploring the ways in which ordinary East Europeans interacted with these competing understandings of their homeland. She approaches this by looking at the relationship between the American-sponsored radio stations broadcast across the Iron Curtain and the East European émigrés they interviewed as sources on life under Communism. Feinberg's careful analysis reveals that these parties developed mutually reinforced assumptions about the meaning of Communism, helping to create the evidentiary foundation for totalitarian interpretations of Communist rule in Eastern Europe. In bridging the geopolitical and the individual, Curtain of Lies provides a perspective that is both innovative in its methodology and indispensable to its field.
Author : Yale Richmond
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 35,1 MB
Release : 2003-04-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0271031573
Some fifty thousand Soviets visited the United States under various exchange programs between 1958 and 1988. They came as scholars and students, scientists and engineers, writers and journalists, government and party officials, musicians, dancers, and athletes—and among them were more than a few KGB officers. They came, they saw, they were conquered, and the Soviet Union would never again be the same. Cultural Exchange and the Cold War describes how these exchange programs (which brought an even larger number of Americans to the Soviet Union) raised the Iron Curtain and fostered changes that prepared the way for Gorbachev's glasnost, perestroika, and the end of the Cold War. This study is based upon interviews with Russian and American participants as well as the personal experiences of the author and others who were involved in or administered such exchanges. Cultural Exchange and the Cold War demonstrates that the best policy to pursue with countries we disagree with is not isolation but engagement.
Author : T. Coraghessan Boyle
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 10,30 MB
Release : 2011
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 0143119079
The lives of two different couples--wealthy Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher, and Candido and America Rincon, a pair of Mexican illegals--suddenly collide, in a story that unfolds from the shifting viewpoints of the various characters.
Author : Susan Viets
Publisher : Delfryn Publishing and Consulting Incorporated
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 32,92 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989
ISBN : 9780987966407
Based on diaries, reporting notebooks, letters and memory, the author, a student turned journalist, tells of her adventures in Europe within a ten-year period (1988 to 1998) which included major historical and political change in countries such as Budapest, Bishkek, Chornobyl and Chechnya. She finishes her stories with an eyewitness account of Ukraine's Orange Revolution in 2004.
Author : John J. Mearsheimer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 46,71 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199975450
Presents an analysis of the lying behavior of political leaders, discussing the reasons why it occurs, the different types of lies, and the costs and benefits to the public and other countries that result from it, with examples from the recent past.
Author : T. Ryle Dwyer
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,32 MB
Release : 2010-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780717146505
Behind the Green Curtain goes beyond any previous book in examining the myth of Irish wartime neutrality.
Author : Aryeh Siegel
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 13,32 MB
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780999661505
Former TM insider inundated with publicity about TM being a scientific relaxation technology that is a cure for just about everything and, since non-religious, should be in our public schools. It was a false narrative. Someone needed to set the record straight, and with his background in public health and behavioral science, he decided to do it.