New Releases by Anne Applebaum

In 1991, Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag, Iron Curtain and Red Famine, took a three-month road trip through the borderlands between the fallen Soviet Union and Europe—lands that became Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania and Moldova. In her iconic reportage, which has become indispensable history, she captures the harrowing story of a region that is once again threatened by Russia. An extraordinary journey into the past and present of the lands east of Poland and west of Russia—an area defined throughout its history by colliding empires. Traveling from the former Soviet naval center of Kaliningrad on the Baltic to the Black Sea port of Odessa, Anne Applebaum encounters a rich range of competing cultures, religions, and national aspirations. In reasserting their heritage, the inhabitants of the borderlands attempt to build a future grounded in their fractured ancestral legacies. In the process, neighbors unearth old conflicts, devote themselves to recovering lost culture, and piece together competing legends to create a new tradition. Rich in surprising encounters and vivid characters, Between East and West brilliantly illuminates the soul of the borderlands and the shaping power of the past.

How should the West deal with Putin’s Russia? For the U.S. and some European powers the answer is obvious: isolate Russia with punishing economic sanctions, remove it from global institutions such as the G8, and arm the nations directly threatened by Putin. In short, return to the Cold War doctrine that froze Soviet aggression in Europe and helped bring about the collapse of communist Russia. Others argue that such a policy is a dead end. Putin’s Russia has legitimate grievances against Western and NATO powers meddling in its sphere of influence. Instead of further antagonizing Putin and risking a dangerous escalation of the current conflict, the U.S. and Europe should seek common cause with Russia to address shared threats, from the Middle East to Asia to combatting terrorism. In the fifteenth semi-annual Munk Debate, acclaimed academic Stephen F. Cohen and veteran journalist and bestselling author Vladimir Poznar square off against internationally renowned expert on Russian history Anne Applebaum and Russian-born political dissident Garry Kasparov to debate the future of the West’s relationship with Russia.

How should the West deal with Putin''s Russia? For the U.S. and some European powers the answer is obvious: isolate Russia with punishing economic sanctions, remove it from global institutions such as the G8, and arm the nations directly threatened by Putin. In short, return to the Cold War doctrine that froze Soviet aggression in Europe and helped bring about the collapse of communist Russia. Others argue that such a policy is a dead end. Putin''s Russia has legitimate grievances against Western and NATO powers meddling in its sphere of influence. Instead of further antagonizing Putin and risking a dangerous escalation of the current conflict, the U.S. and Europe should seek common cause with Russia to address shared threats, from the Middle East to Asia to combatting terrorism.In the fifteenth semi-annual Munk Debate, acclaimed academic Stephen F. Cohen and veteran journalist and bestselling author Vladimir Poznar square off against internationally renowned expert on Russian history Anne Applebaum and Russian-born political dissident Garry Kasparov to debate the future of the West''s relationship with Russia.

Il y a deux manières de renouveler l’Histoire : poser de nouvelles questions sur des sujets apparemment rebattus et trouver de nouveaux documents ou de nouveaux témoins. Dans ce livre magistral, Anne Applebaum accomplit les deux. S’interrogeant sur le « Haut Stalinisme » (1944-1956), soit les douze années de soviétisation de l’ancien Lebensraum nazi (en se concentrant essentiellement sur trois pays emblématiques : Allemagne, Hongrie et Pologne), l’auteur renverse complètement le point de vue : non plus l’Est vu par l’Ouest mais l’Est vu par l’Est. Les sources archivistiques et orales inédites – lectures dans au moins cinq langues, entretiens, voyages, témoignages personnels – enrichissent considérablement les réponses aux questions que l’observateur contemporain de l’Europe de l’Est se pose face aux échecs ou aux revers de la démocratisation des nouvelles nations émancipées du joug soviétique depuis 1989. Rideau de fer prend exactement la suite chronologique de l’ouvrage de Timothy Snyder, Terres de sang, consacré au nazisme et au stalinisme de 1933 à 1945 : il raconte, comme cela n’avait jamais été fait, la manière dont ces « terres de sang » ont été soviétisées (réparations économiques, nettoyages ethniques systématiques que l’on associe rarement à cette période de l’Histoire, récupération partielle de l’appareil policier hérité du nazisme, etc.). Ce grand livre a été unanimement salué comme un des chefs-d’œuvre de l’Histoire récente.

***Premio de Periodismo de El Mundo y Premio Francisco Cerecedo de Periodismo 2021*** La deslumbrante historia la creación del imperio soviético que partió Europa por la mitad durante medio siglo. Al final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial la Unión Soviética controlaba una inmensa extensión de territorio en Europa oriental. Stalin y su policía secreta emprendieron la conversión de doce países radicalmente diferentes a un sistema político y moral totalmente nuevo: el comunismo. La historiadora Anne Applebaum (que obtuvo el premio Pulitzer por Gulag) presenta en estas páginas la obra definitiva sobre cómo surgió el Telón de Acero y cómo era la vida al otro lado. Applebaum describe con pavoroso detalle cómo los partidos políticos, la Iglesia, los medios, las organizaciones juveniles, en suma, todas las instituciones de la sociedad civil, fueron rápidamente desmanteladas. Explica cómo se organizó la policía secreta y cómo se atacaron y destruyeron todas las formas de oposición. Como resultado, en un periodo de tiempo asombrosamente breve, Europa oriental fue estalinizada por completo. A partir de documentos inaccesibles hasta hace poco y fuentes desconocidas en Occidente, Applebaum sigue la táctica comunista en su camino al poder, las amenazas, los abusos y los asesinatos. También narra historias individuales para mostrar las opciones que se presentaban a la gente: luchar, huir o colaborar. El Telón de Acero es la deslumbrante historia de un periodo brutal y un preocupante recordatorio de cuán frágiles son las sociedades libres. Hoy el bloque soviético es una civilización perdida, cuya crueldad, paranoia, perversa moral y extraña estética logra capturar Applebaun en las fascinantes páginas de este libro. Finalista del National Book Award Número 1 de los libros de no ficción de 2012 en la revista Time Libro destacado de The New York Times Entre los 10 mejores libros de 2012 de The Washington Post Mejor libro de no ficción de 2012 en The Wall Street Journal Reseñas: «Una crónica magistral.» Niall Ferguson «Un libro de importancia excepcional.» Antony Beevor «Una descripción detallada y elocuente de acontecimientos sucedidos hace poco y cerca de nosotros que contienen muchas enseñanzas para el presente.» Fareed Zakaria «El absorbente libro de Applebaum se distingue por su capacidad de describir y evocar la experiencia humana e individual de la sovietización.» Timothy Garton Ash «Una de las obras sobre la historia de Europa más interesantes y rigurosas aparecidas en los últimos años.» The Washington Post «Asombroso. Un libro que resucita un mundo oculto en gran medida para Occidente, y que muchas de las personas que lo habitaron y lo padecieron preferirían olvidar.» The New Yorker «Una historia épica pero también humana.» The Wall Street Journal «La crónica trágica e íntima de cómo se impuso el comunismo en Europa central.» David Frum, The Daily Beast

本书作者第一次对古拉格----一个大批关押了成百上千政治犯和刑事犯的集中营----进行了完全纪实性的描述,再现了劳改营生活的本质.

The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist explores Poland’s vibrant and modern culinary life in this beautifully photographed cookbook with 90+ recipes. For too many people, the term “Polish cooking” conjures to mind heavy, greasy, flavorless food. But historian and journalist Anne Applebaum, who has lived in the country since before the fall of Communism, knows better. With recipes inspired by her home in the Polish countryside, Anne sets the record straight about this fresh and delightful cuisine. From a Polish Country House Kitchen offers a tantalizing look at Poland’s cultural heritage, turbulent history, and culinary rejuvenation. With recipes including Caviar and Blini, Steak Tartare, Zupa Gryzbowa, Trout with Lemon Cream Sauce, as well as pierogis, pancakes, latkes, and desserts, Anne shares the sustaining foods of her Polish country home with home cooks the world over.

In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway. At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union to its surprise and delight found itself in control of a huge swath of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to Communism, a completely new political and moral system. In Iron Curtain, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Applebaum describes how the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe were created and what daily life was like once they were complete. She draws on newly opened East European archives, interviews, and personal accounts translated for the first time to portray in devastating detail the dilemmas faced by millions of individuals trying to adjust to a way of life that challenged their every belief and took away everything they had accumulated. Today the Soviet Bloc is a lost civilization, one whose cruelty, paranoia, bizarre morality, and strange aesthetics Applebaum captures in the electrifying pages of Iron Curtain.

Van 1929 tot Stalins dood in 1953 werden zon achttien miljoen dwangarbeiders tot de werkkampen van de Goelag veroordeeld. Naar schatting vierenhalf miljoen van hen keerden nooit terug. Na de val van het IJzeren Gordijn zijn in Rusland talloze documenten toegankelijk geworden: egodocumenten, ambtelijke archieven, gevangenisdossiers, persoonlijke getuigenissen. Applebaum heeft jarenlang onderzoek verricht en heeft met Goelag hét standaardwerk over deze zwarte bladzijde uit de Europese geschiedenis geschreven.

This landmark book uncovers in detail one of the greatest horrors of the 20th century: the vast system of Soviet camps that were responsible for the deaths of countless millions.