Anne Applebaum

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Anne Applebaum is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, historian, and journalist of the American-Polish descent, renowned for her expertise in the Eastern European history and critical analyses of authoritarian regimes. Applebaum’s notable works include Gulag: A History, Iron Curtain, and Red Famine, which delve into totalitarianism and its impacts.

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Opinion

Ukraine terrifies dictators — but democracies may be the ones to break it

As Putin fears Ukraine and Trump distorts it, Anne Applebaum warns: Kyiv beats autocracy on the battlefield — but truth-starved democracies may still let it fall.

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Anne Applebaum receives the 2024 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.

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Opinion

Wanting peace is not always a moral position

If there's even a small chance that military defeat could end Russia's cult of violence - as it once did Germany's - the West must take it.