News about Anne Applebaum

DOMINIC LAWSON: There isn't a more rigorous or engaged analyst of the crimes of the erstwhile Soviet dictatorship than Anne Applebaum, author of the Pulitzer prize-winning history of the Gulag, and also of Red Famine: Stalin's War On Ukraine. But the historian is also rooted in the present, as a fearsomely active journalist, and her latest work is an-up-to-the moment examination of how modern-day autocracies, not just that of Russia's President Putin, but also including China, North Korea, and Iran, act as a kind of informal bloc to challenge what they see as the West's 'hegemony'.