书籍介绍
本书最锋利之处，在于它不满足于记录铁幕如何落下，而是追问铁幕究竟是如何被一寸寸锻造出来的。作者把镜头对准1945至1949年那段被忽视的过渡期——不是冷战的定型，而是它的制造过程：当权者如何在选举、工会、青年组织乃至教会中，把竞争对手一个个合法地清除出去。读者反复提及的，是那种挥之不去的既视感：读波兰、匈牙利、东德的遭遇时，仿佛照见了自己熟悉的现代史。书中那些令人脊背发凉的细节——亲密朋友每日撰写的告密报告、被强行改写的青春、连信仰都被收编的社会——让
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核心看点
- 详述二战后东欧三国苏式改造历程
- 揭示极权体制建立与巩固的机制
- 剖析政治宣传与秘密监控手段
读者共识
- 史料丰富，观点精辟，极具参考价值
- 内容深刻，发人深省，引发历史反思
- 虽立场鲜明，但可信度高，值得细读
精彩摘录
- "Those Germans who had suffered as political prisoners in Hitler's concentration camps never enjoyed the confidence of the Soviet occupation authorities. It was as if their very presence in Nazi Germany had tarnished them in Soviet eyes."
- "A moaning by the walls half muffled: The mother's wounded, still alive. The little daughter's on the mattress, Dead. How many have been on it A platoon, a company perhaps? A girl's been turned into a woman, A woman turned into a corpse. It's all come down to simple phrases: Do not forget! Do not for"
- "Nevertheless, the most harrowing element of the file is a series of frequent, almost daily reports filed by someone very close to Supka. Although not named in the police file, this informer must have been a close friend or personal secretary, for his knowledge of Supka’s movements, conversations, an"
- "Even before they banned independent political parties for adults, and even before they outlawed church organizations and independent trade unions, they put young people's organizations under the strictest possible observation and restraint."
- "The harsher policies imposed upon the Eastern bloc in 1947 and 1948 were therefore not merely, and certainly not only, a reaction to the Cold War. They were also a reaction to failure."
- "The war ended the way a passage through a tunnel ends ... From far away you could see the light ahead, a gleam that kept growing, and its brilliance seemed ever more dazzling to you huddled there in the dark the longer it took to reach it. But when at last the train burst out in the glorious sunshin"
- "Stalin was desperate to reach the city before the other Allies got there. His commanders understood this, and so did their American counterparts. General Eisenhower, knowing full well that the Germans would fight to the death in Berlin, wanted to save American lives and decided to let Stalin take th"
- "The mentality of a refugee, forcibly expelled from his home, is not that of an emigrant who leaves to seek his fortune: his very circumstances fostered dependency and a sense of helplessness he might never have known before."
用户评论
看的企鹅欧洲版，以前刚大学毕业那会儿还看过作者的《古拉格历史》中文版。如是从前，可能会觉得这类作品让人醍醐灌顶，但现如今却认为此类作品都有那只半死不活的“猫”之嫌，未必就是某部不得了的纪实作品。当然，书中还是有很多值得人思考的记述，尤其是国人。但无奈古今中外历朝历代皆只看中储才养贤，开民慧却沦为奴役的工具，哎～
（20161208-20171211）一部极佳的史学著作，资料丰富，观点精辟。当然，很多内容尖锐到不可能在中国大陆出版。
严格来说，这个也不像是学术著作，作者通过四个国家的案例分析了战后东欧国家变化的历史！网上查了一下，难怪作者对波兰叙述较为详细，原来她老公是波兰外长！
写的很有讽刺的意味
选择了波兰、匈牙牙、东德在冷战初期的历史不免有些局限，作者的身份让人很难怀疑这部作品的可信度，该作者的另一部作品《古拉格-一部历史》也是一部经典之作，值得一读。。。
一毛一样
因为纯属个人爱好的看，并无什么deadline，加之英文书看起来的确吃力，因此断断续续看了一年。到今日才看完，准备写点小感想，到时候用英文发出来吧，中文敏感词太多了。
这浓浓的既视感。读着读着好似在看1984，又像在看中国现代史。"Human beings do not acquire totalitarian personalities with such ease. Even when it seems as if they are in full agreement with the most absurd propaganda-even if they are marching in parades, chanting slogans,singing that the party is always right - the spell can suddenly, unexpectedly, dramatically be broken."
真的是同病相怜，不过人家正在痊愈，这边还在肆虐
Penguin的其他书籍查看全部
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A Monk's Guide to a Clean House and Mind
Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum
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A History of the World in 100 Objects
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