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Anne Applebaum

About The Author

Anne Applebaum is a staff writer at The Atlantic and a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian. Her books Gulag: A History; Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944–1956; and Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine have appeared in more than two dozen translations. Her most recent book is Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism. Applebaum is a former columnist for The Washington Post and a senior fellow of the Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University.

Books by Anne Applebaum