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Autocracy, Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World by Anne Applebaum
Category: World
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man at the top. But in the 21st century, that cartoon bears little resemblance to reality. Nowadays, autocracies are run not by one bad guy, but by sophisticated networks composed of kleptocratic financial str ...Show more
Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe by Anne Applebaum
Category: History
This book offers 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 Kapusc ...Show more
From a Polish Country House Kitchen by Anne Applebaum
Category: Architecture
In My Polish Country House Kitchen is a beautifully written cookbook that explores the fall of Communism and its wide-ranging culinary and cultural effects through the lens of food. This is not the discovery of a trend, but rather the rediscover of something that was always there. The book contains 90 r ...Show more
Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps by Anne Applebaum
Category: History
The Gulag is Russia's forgotten holocaust. The largest network of concentration camps ever created, it murdered millions and haunted all those who came out alive. Here, for the first time, is the full, moving story of its countless victims- how they lived, laboured, suffered - and survived to bear witne ...Show more
Gulag: a History of the Soviet Camps by Anne Applebaum
Category: History
The Gulag--a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners--was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers ...Show more
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56 by Anne Applebaum
Category: History
At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union unexpectedly found itself in control of a huge swathe of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to a completely new political and moral system: Communism. Anne Applebaum's lan ...Show more
Iron Curtain : The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56 by Anne Applebaum
Category: History
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Gulag" comes a major new work of historical and moral reckoning: the story of life behind the Iron Curtain. Once the Nazis were defeated in 1945, the people of Central and Eastern Europe expected to recover the lives they had led before 1939. Instead, they foun ...Show more
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
Category: History
Winner of the Duff Cooper and Lionel Gelber prizes In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the twentieth century. With unprecedented authority and detail, Red Famine investigate ...Show more
Red Famine - Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
Category: Military
SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, FT AND EVENING STANDARD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017The momentous new book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Iron Curtain.In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episo ...Show more
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-33 by Anne Applebaum
Category: History
The momentous new book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Iron Curtain. In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the twentieth century. With unprecedented author ...Show more
The American Crisis - What Went Wrong. How We Recover by Cullen Murphy (Editor); Writers of The Atlantic; Jeffrey Goldberg (Introduction by); Anne Applebaum (Afterword by)
Category: Politics
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 pan ...Show more