Raudne eesriie. Anne Applebaum
Vabariik (ehk Ida-Saksamaa). Euroopa ülejäänud kommunistlikud riigid – Albaania, Bulgaaria, Rumeenia ja Jugoslaavia – paigutatakse samuti termini „Ida-Euroopa” alla. Riike, mis pole kunagi olnud kommunistide võimu all, näiteks Kreeka ja Soome, ei arvata selle Ida-Euroopa hulka, ehkki nad võiks seda olla puhtgeograafilisest seisukohast.” Mark Kramer, ‘Stalin, Soviet Policy and the Consolidation of a Communist Bloc in Eastern Europe, 1944–1953’, lk 1, Freeman Spogli International Institute’i dokument, 30. aprill 2010.
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Samal seisukohal on ka Joseph Rothschild väljaandes Return to Diversity: A Political History of East Central Europe since World War II (New York ja Oxford, 2000), eriti lk 75–78.
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Pravda, 21. detsembril 1949.
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The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) is the Leading and Guiding Force of Soviet Society(Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moskva, 1951), lk 46.
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Vt Hugh Seton-Watson, The New Imperialism: A Background Book (London, 1961), lk 81.
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Selle teesi klassikalise variandi formuleeris William Appleman Williams väljaandes The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (New York, 1959). Hilisema ja keerukama variandi leiame näiteks väljaandest Wilfred Loth, Stalin’s Unwanted Child: The Soviet Union, the German Question and the Founding of the GDR, tlk Robert F. Hogg (London, 1998).
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John Lewis Gaddis, We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (Oxford, 1997); Kramer, ‘Stalin, Soviet Policy and the Consolidation of a Communist Bloc in Eastern Europe, 1944–1953’.
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T. V. Volokitina jt, toim, Sovetski faktor v vostotšnoi Jevrope, 1944–1953, kd 1, lk 23–48; samuti Norman Naimark, ‘The Sovietization of Eastern Europe, 1944–1953’, The Cambridge History of the Cold War (Cambridge, 2010).
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Ivo Banac, toim, The Diary of Georgi Dimitrov, 1933–1949 (New Haven ja London, 2003), lk 14.
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Tony Judt ja Timothy Snyder, Thinking the Twentieth Century (London, 2012), lk 190.
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Tomasz Goban-Klas, The Orchestration of the Media: The Politics of Mass Communications in Communist Poland and the Aftermath (Boulder, 1994), lk 54.
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Jugoslaavia kommunistlik partei püsis teistest aastaid kauem populaarne, aga seda vähemalt osalt seetõttu, et see murdis välja Nõukogude mõju alt.
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Üks erand ja standardne teos paljudeks aastateks oli Zbigniew Brzezinski raamat The Soviet Bloc: Unity and Conflict (New York, 1967).
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Arendt, Origins of Totalitarianism, lk 480–481.
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Vt Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (New York, 2011); Jan Gross, ‘War as Revolution’, väljaandes Norman Naimark ja Leonid Gibianski, toim, The Establishment of Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe, 1944–1949 (Boulder, 1997); Bradley Abrams, ‘The Second World War and the East European Revolution’, East European Politics and Societies, kd 16, nr 3, lk 623–625.
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Vt Harvardi külma sõja uurimuste projekti, aga ka Wilson Centeri projekti Cold War International History Project. Head hilisema aja uurimused, kus kasutatakse uusi arhiiviandmeid, on John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History (New York, 2005); Vojtech Mastny, The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years (Oxford, 1996); Melvyn P. Leffler, For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War (New York, 2007). Vt ka Melvyn P. Leffler ja Odd Arne Westad, ‘Bibliographical Essay’, Cambridge History of the Cold War, 1. kd Origins (Cambridge, 2010).
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Paczkowski ja Kersten on kirjutanud selle perioodi kohta palju töid. Inglise keeles vt Andrzej Paczkowski, The Spring Will be Ours: Poland and the Poles from Occupation to Freedom (New York, 2003), ja Krystyna Kersten, The Establishment of Communist Rule in Poland, 1943–1948 (Berkeley, 1991). Vt ka Norman Naimark, The Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945–1949 (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1995); Peter Kenez, Hungary from the Nazis to the Soviets: The Establishment of the Communist Regime in Hungary, 1944–1948 (New York, 2006); László Borhi, Hungary in the Cold War, 1945–1956: Between the United States and the Soviet Union (New York, 2004); Karel Kaplan, The Short March: The Communist Takeover in Czechoslovakia, 1945–48 (New York, 1987); Bradley Adams, The Struggle for the Soul of the Czech Nation: Czech Culture and the Rise of Communism (New York, 2005); Mary Heimann, Czechoslovakia: The State That Failed (New Haven, 2009).
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John Connelly, Captive University: The Sovietization of East German, Czech, and Polish Higher Education, 1945–1956 (Chapel Hill, 1999); Catherine Epstein, The Last Revolutionaries: German Communists and Their Century (Cambridge, Massachusetts ja London, 2003); Marci Shore, Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation’s Life and Death in Marxism, 1918–1968 (New Haven, 2006); Mária Schmidt, Battle of Wits, tlk Ann Major (Budapest, 2007); Martin Mevius, Agents of Moscow: The Hungarian Communist Party and the Origins of Socialist Patriotism 1941–1953 (Oxford, 2005); Mark Kramer, ‘The Early Post-Stalin Succession Struggle and Upheavals in East-Central Europe: Internal–External Linkages in Soviet Policy Making’, osad 1–3, Journal of Cold War Studies, 1, 1 (talv 1999), 3–55; 1, 2 (kevad 1999), 3–38; 1, 3 (sügis 1999), 3–66.
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T. V. Volokitina jt, toim, Vostotšnaja Jevropa v dokumentah rossiiskih arhivov, 1944–1953 (Novosibirsk, 1997), ja T. V. Volokitina jt, toim, Sovetski faktor v vostotšnoi Jevrope, 1944–1953 (Moskva, 1999).
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Tamás Lossonczy, The Vision is Always Changing (Budapest, 2004), lk 82.
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William Shirer, End of a Berlin Diary (New York, 1947), lk 131.
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Marcin Zaremba, Wielka Trwoga: Polska 1944–1947, Ludowa reakcja na kryzys (Varssavi, 2012), lk 71. Lk numbrid käsikirjast.
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Autor teadmata, A Woman in Berlin, tlk Philip Boehm (London, 2006), lk 64–66.
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Krisztián Ungváry, The Siege of Budapest: 100 Days in World War II (New York, 2005), lk 324–325.
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Władysław Szpilman, The Pianist (London, 1999), lk 183.
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Bradley Abrams, ‘The Second World War and the East European Revolution’, East European Politics and Societies, 16. kd, nr 3, lk 623–625.
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