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Also known as Anne Elizabeth Sikorska, Anne Sikorska, Applebaum, Anne, Anne Elizabeth Sikorski, Anne Sikorski

American journalist and historian (born 1964)

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Born
25 July 1964
Works
15

Top works

  • Autocracy, Inc.
  • World Monuments
  • From A Polish Country House Kitchen 90 Recipes For The Ultimate Comfort Food
  • Gulag
  • Between East and West

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Anne Elizabeth Applebaum is an American journalist and historian. She has written extensively about Marxism–Leninism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe. She has worked at The Economist and The Spectator, and was a member of the editorial board of The Washington Post.

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  • Verdenssituationen med Clement — Gæst2025
  • Two Men at War — Self2022
  • State of Hate: The Explosion of White Supremacy — Herself2019
  • Firing Line with Margaret Hoover2018
  • ANNE WILL — Self2007
  • Real Time with Bill Maher — Self2003
  • CNN Special Report — Self1980
  • Newsnight — Self1980
  • Washington Week with The Atlantic — Self1967
  • Washington Week with The Atlantic — Self - Panelist1967

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Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United States
Active from
1964

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Anne Elizabeth Applebaum (born July 25, 1964 in Washington, D.C.) is a journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who has written extensively about communism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe. She has been an editor at The Economist, and a member of the editorial board of the Washington Post (2002–2006). She is married to Foreign Minister of Poland Radosław Sikorski. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Anne+Applebaum">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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  • Against this background of improvisation and violence, the first Soviet labour camps were born. Like so many other Bolshevik institutions, they were created ad hoc... as an emergency measure in the heat of the civil war. This is not to say the idea had no prior appeal. Three weeks before the , Lenin... was... sketching... [a] vague plan to organize 'obligatory work duty' for wealthy capitalists.
  • Soviet reality was always a strange one: the factory is barely functioning, in the shops there is nothing to buy, old ladies cannot afford to heat their apartments, yet in the streets outside, banners proclaim the 'triumph of socialism' and the 'heroic achievements of the Soviet motherland.'
  • They did not work but they were allocated a full ration; they levied a money tribute from all the 'peasants', those who did work; they took half of the food parcels and purchases from the camp commissary; and they brazenly cleaned out the new transports, taking all the best clothes from the newcomers. They were ...racketeers, gangsters ...members of a small mafia. All the ordinary criminal inmates of the camp— ...the majority—hated them intensely.
  • Of all the different kinds of damage done by the Second World War, the hardest to quantify is the psychological and emotional damage. The brutality of the First World War created a generation of fascist leaders, idealistic intellectuals, and expressionist artists who twisted the human form into inhuman shapes and colors in an attempt to convey their disorientation. But... the Second World War entered far more deeply... Constant daily violence shaped the human psyche...
  • Before a nation can be rebuilt, its citizens need to understand how it was destroyed in the first place: how its institutions were undermined, how its language was twisted, how its people were manipulated.
  • [O]ne Western policy stands out as a phenomenal success, particularly when measured against the low expectations with which it began: the integration of Central Europe and the Baltic States into the European Union and NATO. Thanks to this double project, more than 90 million people have enjoyed relative safety and relative prosperity for more than two decades in a region whose historic instability helped launch two world wars.

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Born
Anne Elizabeth Applebaum , ( 1964-07-25 ) July 25, 1964 (age 61) , Washington, D.C., U.S.
Citizenship
United States Poland
Education
Yale University ( BA ) London School of Economics ( MSc ) St Antony's College, Oxford
Known for
Writing on Soviet Union and its satellite countries
Spouse
Radosław Sikorski ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. June 27, 1992</span>"}]]}'>1992 ) ​
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
Website
www .anneapplebaum .com

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Anne Elizabeth Applebaum (born July 25, 1964) is an American journalist and historian. She has written about the history of Communism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe. She became a Polish citizen in 2013.

Applebaum has worked at The Economist and The Spectator magazines, and she was a member of the editorial board of The Washington Post (2002–2006). She won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 2004 for Gulag: A History. She is a staff writer for The Atlantic magazine, as well as a senior fellow of the SNF Agora Institute and the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

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