| Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “GULAG: A History” and wife of Poland’s Foreign Minister, Radek Sikorski, is visiting Sydney next week to speak at the Australian Institute of International Affairs. Anne has written extensively about communism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe. She is a Foundation Advisory Committee member of the Kresy-Siberia Virtual Museum.
You can read Anne’s letter of support to Kresy-Siberia JUST HERE
Anne will speak on the topic of her latest book Iron curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956, at the Glover Cottages, 124 Kent Street, Sydney 2000, from 4:45 pm to 6:00 pm. Abbey Books will be at Glover Cottages selling copies of Anne’s book. A glass of wine will be served. Entry cost: $10.00
One of the achievements of the Reagan-Thatcher years - surprisingly overlooked by many ABC commentators when the former British prime minister died earlier this month - was to smash the iron grip of the Soviet Union on Central and Eastern Europe. At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union unexpectedly found itself in control of a huge swathe of territory. 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 new book Iron Curtain describes how the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe were created, and what daily life was like once they were complete. The book describes how political parties, the church, the media, young people’s organizations – the institutions of civil society on every level – were eviscerated, how the secret police services were organized, how ethnic cleansing was carried out – and how some people were forced to collaborate while others managed to resist.
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