The Iron Curtain : A Short History of Socialist Borders

Name: The Iron Curtain : A Short History of Socialist Borders
Brand: Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

The Iron CurtainA Short History of Socialist Borders\nAuthor(s): Lorenz M. Lthi\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781009712774, 978-1009712774\nSynopsis\nThe Iron Curtain remains an iconic representation of the Cold War. But what was it really on the ground? Fortified borders to prevent citizens from leaving emerged first in the interwar USSR and then in socialist post-WW II Europe. Fortifications occurred both at borders between socialist states and at their external boundaries to the non-socialist world, but not in all cases. The most well-known case the Berlin Wall was both an extreme example as well as a latecomer. But since 1947, Yugoslavia, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia had fortified their borders to prevent exit. When East Germany started to build walls around West Berlin and at its borders to West Germany in the 1960s, Yugoslavia was already dismantling its border regime and Hungary was gr.