Anne Applebaum

Anne Elizabeth Applebaum

Anne Elizabeth Applebaum (born July 25, 1964) is an American born Polish journalist and Pulitzer Prize–winning author.

Quotes

• Before a nation can be rebuilt, its citizens need to understand how it was destroyed in the first place: how its institutions were undermined, how its language was twisted, how its people were manipulated
  • Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 (October 30, 2012).

• Stalin’s policies that autumn led inexorably to famine all across the grain-growing regions of the USSR. But in November and December 1932 he twisted the knife further in Ukraine, deliberately creating a deeper crisis. Step by step, using bureaucratic language and dull legal terminology, the Soviet leadership, aided by their cowed Ukrainian counterparts, launched a famine within the famine, a disaster specifically targeted at Ukraine and Ukrainians.
  • Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine (September 7, 2017).

• The archival record backs up the testimony of the survivors. Neither crop failure nor bad weather caused the famine in Ukraine.
  • Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine (2017) quoted at "Ukraine in the Flames of the 1917 Revolution" (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, September 13, 2017)

• Starvation was the result, rather, of the forcible removal of food from people’s homes; the roadblocks that prevented peasants from seeking work or food; the harsh rules of the blacklists imposed on farms and villages; the restrictions on barter and trade; and the vicious propaganda campaign designed to persuade Ukrainians to watch, unmoved, as their neighbours died of hunger.
  • Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine (2017) quoted at "Ukraine in the Flames of the 1917 Revolution" (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, September 13, 2017)

• Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all societies eventually will.
  • A Warning From Europe: The Worst is Yet to Come (October 2018), The Atlantic.

• Polarization is normal. Skepticism about liberal democracy is normal. And the appeal of authoritarianism is eternal.
  • A Warning From Europe: The Worst is Yet to Come (October 2018), The Atlantic.

• If the 20th century was the story of slow, uneven progress toward the victory of liberal democracy over other ideologies—communism, fascism, virulent nationalism—the 21st century is, so far, a story of the reverse.
  • "The Bad Guys Are Winning" (November 15, 2021), The Atlantic.
• The list of major American corporations caught in tangled webs of personal, financial, and business links to China, Russia, and other autocracies is very long.
  • "The Bad Guys Are Winning" (November 15, 2021), The Atlantic.
• I don’t think Hunter Biden’s business relationships have anything to do with who should be president of the United States. So, I don’t find it [Hunter Biden's laptop] to be interesting. (April 6, 2022)
  • "Atlantic’s Anne Applebaum Rattled by Hunter Biden Question in Epic Own by Thinker’s Daniel Schmidt" Chicago Thinker (April 6, 2022)

External links

• Official website
• 2005 Pulitzer Prize citation for Gulag: A History
• "Anne Applebaum, Opinion Writer" The Washington Post
• Appearances on C-SPAN
  • Booknotes interview with Applebaum on Gulag, May 25, 2003
• Putinism: the ideology on YouTube

– 1:20 lecture by Anne Applebaum spoken in London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), recorded on Monday 28 January 2013.

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