Anne Applebaum
London and Warsaw
Columnist focusing on national politics and foreign policy
Education: Yale University, BA in history and literature; London School of Economics, MSc in international relations; Georgetown University, Doctor honoris causa
Anne Applebaum is a columnist for The Washington Post and a prize-winning historian with a particular expertise in the history of communist and post-communist Europe. She is also a professor of practice at the London School of Economics, where she runs ARENA, a research project on disinformation and 21st-century propaganda. She is the author of several books, including "Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine," "Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe" and "Gulag: A History," which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. Both "Gulag" and "Iron Curtain" were nominated for the National Book