Anne Applebaum

Anne Applebaum is a staff writer at The Atlantic. She is also a senior fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University and the School of Advanced International Studies. Her books include Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine; Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944–1956; and Gulag: A History, which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Her most recent books include the New York Times best sellers Twilight of Democracy and Autocracy, Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World. She was a Washington Post columnist for 15 years and a member of the editorial board. She has also been the deputy editor of The Spectator and a columnist for several British newspapers. Her writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy, among many other publications.

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  4. The Case Against Pessimism

    The West has to believe that democracy will prevail.

    Anne Applebaum
    Left: Russian troops on the offensive in Poland in 1945. Right: Ukrainian troops patrol at the front line outside in 2022.
    Illustration by Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic. Sources: AP Radio Photo / Alamy; Aris Messinis / Getty; Library of Congress.