Books by Anne Applebaum and Complete Book Reviews
Anne Applebaum, Author . Doubleday $35 (720p) ISBN 978-0-7679-0056-0
Nearly 30 million prisoners passed through the Soviet Union's labor camps in their more than 60 years of operation. This remarkable volume, the first fully documented history of the gulag, describes how, largely under Stalin's watch, a...
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Anne Applebaum, Author Pantheon Books $24 (314p) ISBN 978-0-679-42150-4
Traveling the uncertain land between Eastern and Western Europe, Applebaum recounts her three-month journey and the people she meets, typified by a man who was born in Poland, raised in the Soviet Union and now living in Belarus-yet he has never...
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Anne Applebaum. Doubleday, $35 (560p) ISBN 978-0-385-51569-6
According to this disturbing but fascinating history, the U.S.S.R.’s 1944–1950 subjugation of Eastern Europe was a brutal process. With other priorities in the forefront at Yalta and other wartime Allied summits, FDR gave Soviet occupation of...
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Anne Applebaum and Danielle Crittenden. Chronicle, $40 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4521-1055-4
Crittenden admits in her preface “Anne and I are unlikely cookbook writers” (Applebaum is a columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner for Gulag and National Book Award nominee for Iron Curtain; Crittenden is a writer and editor who specializes in politics
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Anne Applebaum. Doubleday, $35 (496p) ISBN 978-0-385-53885-5
In this monograph, which is sure to be controversial, Applebaum (Iron Curtain), a professor of practice at the London School of Economics who lives in Poland, argues that Stalin’s 1929 plan for agricultural collectivization was more sinister than...
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Anne Applebaum. Doubleday, $25 (224p) ISBN 978-0-385-54580-8
Responsible conservatism has drifted into bigotry, antidemocratic ideology, and revenge psychology, argues this deeply personal analysis of the populist right. Historian and journalist Applebaum (Red Famine) calls out erstwhile center-right friends...
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