Anne Applebaum

Anne Applebaum is an American journalist and historian who writes about the history of Communism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe. Her book Gulag: A History, a study of the Soviet forced-labor camp system, won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 2004. She has also written Iron Curtain, on the crushing of Eastern Europe, Red Famine, on Stalin's war on Ukraine, and Twilight of Democracy, on the pull of authoritarianism. She is a staff writer for The Atlantic and a senior fellow at Johns Hopkins University.