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Born | Anne Elizabeth Applebaum July 25, 1964 [1] Washington, D.C., U.S. |
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Known for | Writing on Soviet Union and its satellite countries |
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Children | 2 |
Awards | Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction |
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Anne Elizabeth Applebaum [2] [3] (born July 25, 1964) is an American and naturalized-Polish journalist and historian. She has written extensively about the history of Communism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe.
She has worked at The Economist and The Spectator, [4] and was a member of the editorial board of The Washington Post (2002–2006). [5] Applebaum won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 2004 for Gulag: A History published the previous year. [6] She is a staff writer for The Atlantic [7] and a senior fellow at The Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. [8]
Applebaum was born in Washington, D.C., [2] the eldest of three daughters of Harvey M. and Elizabeth Applebaum. Her father, a Yale alumnus, is senior counsel at Covington & Burling's Antitrust and International Trade Practices. Her mother is a program coordinator at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. According to Applebaum, her great-grandparents immigrated to America during the reign of Alexander III of Russia from what is now Belarus. [9] Applebaum has stated that she was brought up in a "very reform" Jewish family. [10] After attending the Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C., Applebaum entered Yale University, where during the Fall 1982 semester she studied Soviet history under Wolfgang Leonhard. [11] As an undergraduate, she spent the summer of 1985 in Leningrad, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia), an experience she credits with helping shape her opinions. [12] Applebaum received her BA from Yale in 1986 summa cum laude, in history and literature, [13] [11] and was the recipient of a two-year Marshall Scholarship at the London School of Economics, where she earned a master's degree in international relations (1987). [14] She also studied at St Antony's College, Oxford, before becoming a correspondent for The Economist and moving to Warsaw, Poland, in 1988. [15]
In November 1989, Applebaum drove from Warsaw to Berlin to report on the collapse of the Berlin Wall. [16]
As foreign correspondent for The Economist and The Independent, she covered the fall of the Berlin Wall and the fall of communism. In 1991 she moved back to England to work for The Economist, and was later hired as the foreign and later deputy editor of The Spectator, and later the political editor of the Evening Standard. [17]
In 1994, she published her first book Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe, a travelogue that described the rise of nationalism across the new states of the former Soviet Union. [18] In 2001, she interviewed prime minister Tony Blair. [19] She also undertook historical research for her book Gulag: A History (2003) on the Soviet prison camp system, which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. [6] [20] [21] It was also nominated for a National Book Award, for the Los Angeles Times book award and for the National Book Critics Circle Award. [22]
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Booknotes interview with Applebaum on Gulag, May 25, 2003, C-SPAN | |
Q&A interview with Applebaum on Iron Curtain, December 16, 2012, C-SPAN |
She has been a member of The Washington Post editorial board. [5] She was a columnist at The Washington Post for seventeen years. [23] Applebaum was an adjunct fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. [24]
Her second history book, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944–56, was published in 2012 by Doubleday in the US and Allen Lane in the UK; it was nominated for a National Book Award, shortlisted for the 2013 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award. [25]
From 2011 to 2016, she created and ran the Transitions Forum at the Legatum Institute, an international think tank and educational charity based in London. Among other projects, she ran a two-year program examining the relationship between democracy and growth in Brazil, India and South Africa, [26] created the Future of Syria [27] and Future of Iran projects [28] on future institutional change in those two countries, and commissioned a series of papers on corruption in Georgia, [29] Moldova [30] and Ukraine. [31]
Together with Foreign Policy magazine she created Democracy Lab, a website focusing on countries in transition to, or away from, democracy [32] and which has since become Democracy Post [33] at The Washington Post. She also ran Beyond Propaganda, [34] a program examining 21st century propaganda and disinformation. Started in 2014, the program anticipated later debates about "fake news". In 2016, she left Legatum because of its stance on Brexit following the appointment of Euroskeptic Philippa Stroud as CEO [35] and joined the London School of Economics as a Professor of Practice at the Institute for Global Affairs. At the LSE, she ran Arena, a program on disinformation and 21st century propaganda. [36] In the autumn of 2019 she moved the project to the Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. [8]
In October 2017, she published her third history book, Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, a history of the Holodomor. The book won the Lionel Gelber Prize [37] and the Duff Cooper Prize [38] for the second time, making her the only author to ever win the award twice. [39]
In November 2019, The Atlantic announced that Applebaum was joining the publication as a staff writer starting in January 2020. [23] She was included in the 2020 Prospect list of the top-50 thinkers for the COVID-19 era. [40]
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Presentation by Applebaum on Twilight of Democracy, July 21, 2020, C-SPAN |
In July 2020, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism was published. Partly a memoir and partly political analysis, it was a Der Spiegel [41] and New York Times bestseller. [42]
Also in July 2020, Applebaum was one of the 153 signers of the "Harper's Letter" (also known as " A Letter on Justice and Open Debate") that expressed concern that "the free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted." [43]
In November 2022, Applebaum was one of 200 US citizens sanctioned by Russia for "promotion of the Russophobic campaign and support for the regime in Kyiv." [44]
Applebaum is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. [45] She is on the board of the National Endowment for Democracy and Renew Democracy Initiative. [46] [47] She was a member of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting's international board of directors. [48] She was a Senior Adjunct Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) where she co-led a major initiative aimed at countering Russian disinformation in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). [49] She was on the editorial board for The American Interest [50] and the Journal of Democracy. [51][ when?]
In 1992, Applebaum married Radosław Sikorski, who later served as Poland's Defence Minister, Foreign Minister, Marshal of the Sejm, and a member of the European Parliament. Since 2023, he serves again as Minister of Foreign Affairs. The couple have two sons, Aleksander and Tadeusz. [52] She became a Polish citizen in 2013. [53] She speaks Polish and Russian in addition to English. [54]
... is a summa cum laude graduate of Yale University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
On Nov. 10, 1989, Applebaum, then a young reporter, jumped in a car in the company of her soon-to-be husband—future Polish Foreign and Defense Minister Radek Sikorski—and drove from Warsaw to Berlin to see with her own eyes the collapse of the Berlin Wall. 1989 was the point of departure of everything that Applebaum did in the following three decades. Her much-praised history books about the Soviet Gulag and the establishment of the communist regimes in Central Europe were her historical introduction to the inevitability of 1989.
The [Russian] foreign ministry said the 200 US nationals included officials and legislators, their close relatives, heads of companies and experts "involved in the promotion of the Russophobic campaign and support for the regime in Kyiv" ... [including] US writer and Russia expert Anne Applebaum
Radosław Sikorski is married to journalist and writer Anne Applebaum, who won the 2004 Pulitzer prize for her book "Gulag: A History". They have two sons: Aleksander and Tomasz.
Anne Applebaum jest już pełnoprawną Polką.
For scholars, the most interesting part of the book will be the two excellent historiographical chapters in which she teases out the political and scholarly impulses tending to minimise the famine in Soviet times ('The Cover-Up') and does the same for post-Soviet Ukrainian exploitation of the issue ('The Holodomor in History and Memory')
Anne Applebaum | |
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Born | Anne Elizabeth Applebaum July 25, 1964 [1] Washington, D.C., U.S. |
Citizenship |
|
Education | |
Known for | Writing on Soviet Union and its satellite countries |
Spouse | |
Children | 2 |
Awards | Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction |
Website |
www |
Anne Elizabeth Applebaum [2] [3] (born July 25, 1964) is an American and naturalized-Polish journalist and historian. She has written extensively about the history of Communism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe.
She has worked at The Economist and The Spectator, [4] and was a member of the editorial board of The Washington Post (2002–2006). [5] Applebaum won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 2004 for Gulag: A History published the previous year. [6] She is a staff writer for The Atlantic [7] and a senior fellow at The Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. [8]
Applebaum was born in Washington, D.C., [2] the eldest of three daughters of Harvey M. and Elizabeth Applebaum. Her father, a Yale alumnus, is senior counsel at Covington & Burling's Antitrust and International Trade Practices. Her mother is a program coordinator at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. According to Applebaum, her great-grandparents immigrated to America during the reign of Alexander III of Russia from what is now Belarus. [9] Applebaum has stated that she was brought up in a "very reform" Jewish family. [10] After attending the Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C., Applebaum entered Yale University, where during the Fall 1982 semester she studied Soviet history under Wolfgang Leonhard. [11] As an undergraduate, she spent the summer of 1985 in Leningrad, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia), an experience she credits with helping shape her opinions. [12] Applebaum received her BA from Yale in 1986 summa cum laude, in history and literature, [13] [11] and was the recipient of a two-year Marshall Scholarship at the London School of Economics, where she earned a master's degree in international relations (1987). [14] She also studied at St Antony's College, Oxford, before becoming a correspondent for The Economist and moving to Warsaw, Poland, in 1988. [15]
In November 1989, Applebaum drove from Warsaw to Berlin to report on the collapse of the Berlin Wall. [16]
As foreign correspondent for The Economist and The Independent, she covered the fall of the Berlin Wall and the fall of communism. In 1991 she moved back to England to work for The Economist, and was later hired as the foreign and later deputy editor of The Spectator, and later the political editor of the Evening Standard. [17]
In 1994, she published her first book Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe, a travelogue that described the rise of nationalism across the new states of the former Soviet Union. [18] In 2001, she interviewed prime minister Tony Blair. [19] She also undertook historical research for her book Gulag: A History (2003) on the Soviet prison camp system, which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. [6] [20] [21] It was also nominated for a National Book Award, for the Los Angeles Times book award and for the National Book Critics Circle Award. [22]
External videos | |
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Booknotes interview with Applebaum on Gulag, May 25, 2003, C-SPAN | |
Q&A interview with Applebaum on Iron Curtain, December 16, 2012, C-SPAN |
She has been a member of The Washington Post editorial board. [5] She was a columnist at The Washington Post for seventeen years. [23] Applebaum was an adjunct fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. [24]
Her second history book, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944–56, was published in 2012 by Doubleday in the US and Allen Lane in the UK; it was nominated for a National Book Award, shortlisted for the 2013 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award. [25]
From 2011 to 2016, she created and ran the Transitions Forum at the Legatum Institute, an international think tank and educational charity based in London. Among other projects, she ran a two-year program examining the relationship between democracy and growth in Brazil, India and South Africa, [26] created the Future of Syria [27] and Future of Iran projects [28] on future institutional change in those two countries, and commissioned a series of papers on corruption in Georgia, [29] Moldova [30] and Ukraine. [31]
Together with Foreign Policy magazine she created Democracy Lab, a website focusing on countries in transition to, or away from, democracy [32] and which has since become Democracy Post [33] at The Washington Post. She also ran Beyond Propaganda, [34] a program examining 21st century propaganda and disinformation. Started in 2014, the program anticipated later debates about "fake news". In 2016, she left Legatum because of its stance on Brexit following the appointment of Euroskeptic Philippa Stroud as CEO [35] and joined the London School of Economics as a Professor of Practice at the Institute for Global Affairs. At the LSE, she ran Arena, a program on disinformation and 21st century propaganda. [36] In the autumn of 2019 she moved the project to the Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. [8]
In October 2017, she published her third history book, Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, a history of the Holodomor. The book won the Lionel Gelber Prize [37] and the Duff Cooper Prize [38] for the second time, making her the only author to ever win the award twice. [39]
In November 2019, The Atlantic announced that Applebaum was joining the publication as a staff writer starting in January 2020. [23] She was included in the 2020 Prospect list of the top-50 thinkers for the COVID-19 era. [40]
External videos | |
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Presentation by Applebaum on Twilight of Democracy, July 21, 2020, C-SPAN |
In July 2020, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism was published. Partly a memoir and partly political analysis, it was a Der Spiegel [41] and New York Times bestseller. [42]
Also in July 2020, Applebaum was one of the 153 signers of the "Harper's Letter" (also known as " A Letter on Justice and Open Debate") that expressed concern that "the free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted." [43]
In November 2022, Applebaum was one of 200 US citizens sanctioned by Russia for "promotion of the Russophobic campaign and support for the regime in Kyiv." [44]
Applebaum is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. [45] She is on the board of the National Endowment for Democracy and Renew Democracy Initiative. [46] [47] She was a member of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting's international board of directors. [48] She was a Senior Adjunct Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) where she co-led a major initiative aimed at countering Russian disinformation in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). [49] She was on the editorial board for The American Interest [50] and the Journal of Democracy. [51][ when?]
In 1992, Applebaum married Radosław Sikorski, who later served as Poland's Defence Minister, Foreign Minister, Marshal of the Sejm, and a member of the European Parliament. Since 2023, he serves again as Minister of Foreign Affairs. The couple have two sons, Aleksander and Tadeusz. [52] She became a Polish citizen in 2013. [53] She speaks Polish and Russian in addition to English. [54]
... is a summa cum laude graduate of Yale University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
On Nov. 10, 1989, Applebaum, then a young reporter, jumped in a car in the company of her soon-to-be husband—future Polish Foreign and Defense Minister Radek Sikorski—and drove from Warsaw to Berlin to see with her own eyes the collapse of the Berlin Wall. 1989 was the point of departure of everything that Applebaum did in the following three decades. Her much-praised history books about the Soviet Gulag and the establishment of the communist regimes in Central Europe were her historical introduction to the inevitability of 1989.
The [Russian] foreign ministry said the 200 US nationals included officials and legislators, their close relatives, heads of companies and experts "involved in the promotion of the Russophobic campaign and support for the regime in Kyiv" ... [including] US writer and Russia expert Anne Applebaum
Radosław Sikorski is married to journalist and writer Anne Applebaum, who won the 2004 Pulitzer prize for her book "Gulag: A History". They have two sons: Aleksander and Tomasz.
Anne Applebaum jest już pełnoprawną Polką.
For scholars, the most interesting part of the book will be the two excellent historiographical chapters in which she teases out the political and scholarly impulses tending to minimise the famine in Soviet times ('The Cover-Up') and does the same for post-Soviet Ukrainian exploitation of the issue ('The Holodomor in History and Memory')