About Anne Applebaum
I moved to Warsaw in 1988, and as a very junior journalist I observed, and described, the fall of the communist governments in Poland and elsewhere the following year, in 1989. Over the subsequent three decades, moving back and forth between Poland, the UK and the US, I wrote about democratization in central Europe and Russia as well as American, European and international politics. I worked for both British and American media: The Economist, The Spectator, The Sunday Telegraph, The Washington Post.
In an attempt to understand a regime that I thought was gone and would not return, I also wrote three books about Soviet and central European history. Gulag, a history of the Soviet concentration camps; Iron Curtain, a history of the Sovietization of central Europe; and Red Famine, a history of the Ukrainian famine.
Over those same three decades, old ideas became new again.