About Anne Applebaum
American-Polish journalist and historian (b. 1964), a staff writer at The Atlantic and a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian of the Soviet Gulag and of Stalinism in Eastern Europe. Married to a Polish politician and long embedded in transatlantic conservative circles, Applebaum turned to the contemporary crisis of democracy in Twilight of Democracy.
Books by Anne Applebaum
Autocracy, Inc.
Applebaum's report on how the world's autocracies, from Russia and China to Iran and Venezuela, increasingly operate as a connected network rather than isolated regimes. Bound less by ideology than by shared interests i…
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An intimate, unsettling look at why educated, formerly liberal people across the West have embraced authoritarian and nationalist movements. Drawing on her own friendships across Europe and America, Applebaum asks what…
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