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Autocracy Inc.

The Dictators Who Want to Run the World

by Anne Applebaum ...

**INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction • A New York Times and Globe and Mail bestseller • Named a Best Book of 2024 by the Economist, Winnipeg Free Press, and Financial Times • One of Indigo's Top 100 Books of 2024From the Pulitzer-prize winning, New York Times bestselling author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the ... Read more

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**INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction • A New York Times and Globe and Mail bestseller • Named a Best Book of 2024 by the Economist, Winnipeg Free Press, and Financial Times • One of Indigo's Top 100 Books of 2024From the Pulitzer-prize winning, New York Times bestselling author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the
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Gulag (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

A History

by Anne Applebaum ...

**PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • This magisterial and acclaimed history offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, to its collapse in the era of glasnost.“A tragic testimony to how evil ideologically inspired dictatorships can be.” —The New York Times**A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the CenturyThe ... Read more

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**PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • This magisterial and acclaimed history offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, to its collapse in the era of glasnost.“A tragic testimony to how evil ideologically inspired dictatorships can be.” —The New York Times**A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the CenturyThe
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Iron Curtain

The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956

by Anne Applebaum ...

In the long-awaited National Book Award—shortlisted follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize—winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Central Europe after WWII and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway.At the end of WWII, the Soviet Union, to its surprise and delight, found itself in control of a ... Read more

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In the long-awaited National Book Award—shortlisted follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize—winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Central Europe after WWII and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway.At the end of WWII, the Soviet Union, to its surprise and delight, found itself in control of a
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Twilight of Democracy

The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

by Anne Applebaum ...

**A finalist for the Lionel Gelber PrizeOne of Back Obama's Favourite Books of the YearA Pulitzer Prize–winning historian explains, with electrifying clarity, why elites in democracies around the world are turning toward nationalism and authoritarianism.**From the United States and Britain to continental Europe and beyond, liberal democracy is under siege, while authoritarianism is on the rise. In ... Read more

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**A finalist for the Lionel Gelber PrizeOne of Back Obama's Favourite Books of the YearA Pulitzer Prize–winning historian explains, with electrifying clarity, why elites in democracies around the world are turning toward nationalism and authoritarianism.**From the United States and Britain to continental Europe and beyond, liberal democracy is under siege, while authoritarianism is on the rise. In
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The Origins of Totalitarianism

with a new introduction by Anne Applebaum

by Hannah Arendt, Anne Applebaum ...

Hannah Arendt’s definitive work on totalitarianism—an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history—now with a new introduction by Anne Applebaum.A cornerstone of modern political philosophy, The Origins of Totalitarianism has become essential reading as we grapple with the rise of autocrats and tyrannical thought across the globe.The book begins with the rise of anti ... Read more

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Hannah Arendt’s definitive work on totalitarianism—an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history—now with a new introduction by Anne Applebaum.A cornerstone of modern political philosophy, The Origins of Totalitarianism has become essential reading as we grapple with the rise of autocrats and tyrannical thought across the globe.The book begins with the rise of anti
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Red Famine

Stalin's War on Ukraine

by Anne Applebaum ...

**Winner of the 2018 Lionel Gelber PrizeFrom the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and Iron Curtain, winner of the Cundill Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award, a revelatory history of Stalin's greatest crime.**In 1929, Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization—in effect a second Russian revolution—which forced millions of peasants off their land and onto ... Read more

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**Winner of the 2018 Lionel Gelber PrizeFrom the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and Iron Curtain, winner of the Cundill Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award, a revelatory history of Stalin's greatest crime.**In 1929, Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization—in effect a second Russian revolution—which forced millions of peasants off their land and onto
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Between East and West

Across the Borderlands of Europe

by Anne Applebaum ...

A vivid and human glimpse into Europe's borderlands as they emerged from Soviet rule - back in print after nearly 20 years'In this superb book, in which one senses the spirit of Franz Kafka and Bruno Schulz, the dramatic world of the Eastern borderlands comes to life' Ryszard KapuscinskiAs Europe's borderlands emerged from Soviet rule, Anne Applebaum travelled from the Baltic to the Black Sea, ... Read more

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A vivid and human glimpse into Europe's borderlands as they emerged from Soviet rule - back in print after nearly 20 years'In this superb book, in which one senses the spirit of Franz Kafka and Bruno Schulz, the dramatic world of the Eastern borderlands comes to life' Ryszard KapuscinskiAs Europe's borderlands emerged from Soviet rule, Anne Applebaum travelled from the Baltic to the Black Sea,
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Should the West Engage Putin’s Russia?

The Munk Debates

by Vladimir Pozner, Anne Applebaum, Garry Kasparov, Stephen F. Cohen ...

Series Book 2015 - The Munk Debates
How should the West deal with Putin’s Russia? For the U.S. and some European powers the answer is obvious: isolate Russia with punishing economic sanctions, remove it from global institutions such as the G8, and arm the nations directly threatened by Putin. In short, return to the Cold War doctrine that froze Soviet aggression in Europe and helped bring about the collapse of communist Russia. ... Read more

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How should the West deal with Putin’s Russia? For the U.S. and some European powers the answer is obvious: isolate Russia with punishing economic sanctions, remove it from global institutions such as the G8, and arm the nations directly threatened by Putin. In short, return to the Cold War doctrine that froze Soviet aggression in Europe and helped bring about the collapse of communist Russia.
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From a Polish Country House Kitchen

90 Recipes for the Ultimate Comfort Food

by Anne Applebaum, Danielle Crittenden ...

With more than 150 splendid photographs, headnotes that illuminate Poland's vibrant food culture, and more than 90 recipes for classic and contemporary Polish food, this unique and fascinating cookbook brings an ignored cuisine to light. Pulitzer Prize-winner Anne Applebaum has lived in Poland since before the fall of communism, and this cookbook—nourished by her engagement with the culture and ... Read more

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With more than 150 splendid photographs, headnotes that illuminate Poland's vibrant food culture, and more than 90 recipes for classic and contemporary Polish food, this unique and fascinating cookbook brings an ignored cuisine to light. Pulitzer Prize-winner Anne Applebaum has lived in Poland since before the fall of communism, and this cookbook—nourished by her engagement with the culture and
... Read more
The American Crisis

What Went Wrong. How We Recover.

by Writers of The Atlantic, Anne Applebaum ...

Some of America’s best reporters and thinkers offer an urgent look at a country in chaos in this collection of timely, often prophetic articles from The Atlantic.The past four years in the United States have been among the most turbulent in our history—and would have been so even without a global pandemic and waves of protest nationwide against police violence. Drawn from the recent work of The ... Read more

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Some of America’s best reporters and thinkers offer an urgent look at a country in chaos in this collection of timely, often prophetic articles from The Atlantic.The past four years in the United States have been among the most turbulent in our history—and would have been so even without a global pandemic and waves of protest nationwide against police violence. Drawn from the recent work of The
... Read more
Gulag Voices

An Anthology

Edited by Anne Applebaum ...

Series series Annals of Communism Series
A unique anthology of Gulag memoirs, edited and annotated by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Anne ApplebaumAnne Applebaum wields her considerable knowledge of a dark chapter in human history and presents a collection of the writings of survivors of the Gulag, the Soviet concentration camps. Although the opening of the Soviet archives to scholars has made it possible to write the history of this ... Read more

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A unique anthology of Gulag memoirs, edited and annotated by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Anne ApplebaumAnne Applebaum wields her considerable knowledge of a dark chapter in human history and presents a collection of the writings of survivors of the Gulag, the Soviet concentration camps. Although the opening of the Soviet archives to scholars has made it possible to write the history of this
... Read more
Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

2015/1: The Russian Media and the War in Ukraine

by Andriy Portnov, Andreas Umland, Edwin Bacon, Rolf Fredheim, Tatiana Riabova, Oleg Riabov, Alexandr Osipian, Elizaveta Gaufman, Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya, Nikolay Mitrokhin, Anne Applebaum, Margarita Akhvlediani, Sabra Ayres, Renaud de la Brosse, Rory Finnin, James Marson, Sarah Oates, Simon Ostrovsky, Kevin Platt, Peter Pomerantsev, Natalia Rulyova, Michael Weiss, Maksym Yakovlyev, Rasmus Nielson ...

Series Book 1.1 - Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
The Russian war in Ukraine has been accompanied, fuelled and legitimized by a Russian information war campaign that is unprecedented in its scope and nature. Increasingly lurid in form, sometimes surreal, the Russian state-media propaganda campaign has been surprisingly successful in disguising and distorting the nature of the war and shaping the way it is perceived and understood, both in Russia ... Read more

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The Russian war in Ukraine has been accompanied, fuelled and legitimized by a Russian information war campaign that is unprecedented in its scope and nature. Increasingly lurid in form, sometimes surreal, the Russian state-media propaganda campaign has been surprisingly successful in disguising and distorting the nature of the war and shaping the way it is perceived and understood, both in Russia
... Read more

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