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{{Short description|American historian (born 1964)}}
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| name               = Anne Applebaum
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| caption            = Applebaum in 2024
| birth_name         = Anne Elizabeth Applebaum
| birth_date         = {{Birth date and age|1964|7|25}}<ref name="Interview">{{cite web |url=http://www.citypaper.ee/interview_with_anne_applebaum/ |title=Interview with Anne Applebaum |last=Petrone |first=Justine |work=City Paper |publisher=Baltic News Ltd |access-date=October 3, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720124829/http://www.citypaper.ee/interview_with_anne_applebaum/ |archive-date=July 20, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| birth_place        = Washington, D.C., U.S.
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| citizenship        = {{hlist|United States|Poland
}}
| known_for          = Writing on [[Soviet Union]] and its [[Warsaw Pact|satellite countries]]
| education          = {{Plainlist|
* [[Yale University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])
* [[London School of Economics]] ([[MSc]])
* [[St Antony's College, Oxford]]
}}
| awards             = [[Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction]]
| spouse             = {{Marriage|[[Radosław Sikorski]]|June 27, 1992}}
| children           = 2
| website            = {{Official URL}}
}}

'''Anne Elizabeth Applebaum'''<ref name="NYT1992">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/28/style/weddings-anne-applebaum-radek-sikorski.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |title=Weddings: Anne Applebaum, Radek Sikorski |date=June 28, 1992}}</ref><ref>{{Cite tweet |user=anneapplebaum |title=Elizabeth is indeed my middle name though I can't imagine that it is important |number=1469788507937857543 }}</ref> (born July 25, 1964) is an American journalist and historian. She has written about the [[history of Communism]] and the development of [[civil society]] in [[Central and Eastern Europe]]. She became a [[Poland|Polish]] citizen in 2013.

Applebaum has worked at ''[[The Economist]]'' and ''[[The Spectator]]'' magazines,<ref name="Cohen20200712">{{cite news|last=Cohen|first=Nick|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jul/12/anne-applebaum-how-my-old-friends-paved-the-way-for-trump-and-brexit|title=Anne Applebaum: how my old friends paved the way for Trump and Brexit|work=The Observer|location=London|date=July 12, 2020|access-date=August 4, 2020}}</ref> and she was a member of the [[editorial board]] of ''[[The Washington Post]]'' (2002–2006).<ref name="Anne Applebaum">{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/anne-applebaum/|title=Anne Applebaum|newspaper=The Washington Post|language=en|access-date=April 20, 2017}}</ref> She won the [[Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction]] in 2004 for ''[[Gulag: A History]]''.<ref name="NYT20040405">{{cite news| url = https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/ref/arts/05pulitzers-arts.html | title = 'The Known World' Wins Pulitzer Prize for Fiction| work = [[The New York Times]]|date=April 5, 2004|access-date=March 2, 2020}}</ref> She is a staff writer for ''[[The Atlantic]]'' magazine,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/press-releases/archive/2019/11/anne-applebaum-joins-atlantic-staff-writer/602083/|title=Anne Applebaum Joins The Atlantic as Staff Writer|date=November 15, 2019|work=The Atlantic|language=en-US|access-date=April 13, 2020}}</ref> as well as a senior fellow of the [[Stavros Niarchos Foundation|SNF]] Agora Institute and the [[Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies|School of Advanced International Studies]] at [[Johns Hopkins University]].<ref name="snfagora.jhu.edu">{{Cite web|url=https://snfagora.jhu.edu/person/anne-applebaum/|title=Anne Applebaum: Stavros Niarchos Foundation SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins|website=snfagora.jhu.edu|access-date=April 13, 2020}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Applebaum was born in [[Washington, D.C.]] to a [[Reform Judaism|reform Jewish]] family, the eldest of three daughters of Harvey M. and Elizabeth Applebaum.<ref name="NYT1992" /><ref>{{cite web|last=Lazareva|first=Inna|url=https://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/through-a-communist-looking-glass-then-and-now.premium-1.491882 |title=Through a (communist) looking glass, then and now |website=Haaretz |date=January 4, 2013|access-date=December 11, 2021}}</ref> Her father, a Yale alumnus, is senior counsel in the antitrust and international trade practices at [[Covington & Burling]]. Her mother was a program coordinator at the [[Corcoran Gallery of Art]]. According to Applebaum, her great-grandparents immigrated to North America during the reign of [[Alexander III of Russia]] from what is now [[Belarus]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.svaboda.org/a/29500489.html |title="Беларусі трэба нацыяналізм". Ляўрэатка "Пулітцэра" пра радзіму прадзедаў і выхад з тупіку гісторыі |language=be|newspaper=Радыё Свабода |date=September 23, 2018 |access-date=September 30, 2018|last1=Гурневіч |first1=Дзьмітры }}</ref>

After attending [[Sidwell Friends School]] in Washington, D.C., Applebaum entered [[Yale University]]; there she studied Soviet history under [[Wolfgang Leonhard]] during the fall semester of 1982.<ref name="IC">{{cite book |last1=Applebaum |first1=Anne |title=Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944–1956 |date=2012 |publisher=Doubleday |location=New York USA |isbn=9780385515696 |page=282,508}}</ref> While an undergraduate, she spent the summer of 1985 in [[Leningrad]], Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia), an experience that she credits with helping to shape her opinions.<ref>{{Cite news|first=Applebaum|last=Anne|url=https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/russia-great-forgetting/|title=Russia and the Great Forgetting|work=[[Commentary (magazine)|Commentary]]|access-date=April 3, 2017}}</ref>

Applebaum received her [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] from Yale in 1986 ''[[summa cum laude]]'' in history and literature.<ref>{{cite web|title=Anne Applebaum – internationales literaturfestival berlin|url=http://www.literaturfestival.com/archive/participants/authors/2014/anne-applebaum?set_language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170302031208/http://www.literaturfestival.com/archive/participants/authors/2014/anne-applebaum?set_language=en|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 2, 2017|access-date=April 3, 2017|website=Literaturfestival.com|language=de}}</ref><ref name="IC"/> She was the recipient of a two-year [[Marshall Scholarship]] at the [[London School of Economics]], where she earned a master's degree in [[international relations]] (1987).<ref name="NYT_wdg">{{cite news|title=Anne E. Applebaum to Wed in June|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/08/style/anne-e-applebaum-to-wed-in-june.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=December 8, 1991
|access-date=April 23, 2008|quote=... is a summa cum laude graduate of Yale University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
}}</ref> She also studied at [[St Antony's College, Oxford]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Anne Applebaum |url=https://www.oxfordna.org/amer-alumni-authors-march-2018 |publisher=University of Oxford |access-date=2 April 2025 |quote=As a celebration of our alumni, each month we will highlight a new book written by one of Oxford's North American-based alumni. For March 2018, our author is Anne Applebaum (St Antony's College, 1986).}}</ref> before becoming a correspondent for ''The Economist'' and moving to [[Warsaw]], Poland, in 1988.<ref name="Wash-Bio">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinions/biographies/anne-applebaum.html|title=Anne Applebaum|newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=October 3, 2009}}</ref>

In November 1989, Applebaum drove from Warsaw to Berlin to report on the collapse of the [[Berlin Wall]].<ref name="FP_2020">{{cite web |author1=[[Ivan Krastev]] |title=The Tragic Romance of the Nostalgic Western Liberal |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/08/15/the-tragic-romance-of-the-middle-aged-western-liberal/ |publisher=Foreign Policy |access-date=November 15, 2022 |date=August 15, 2020 |quote=1989 was the point of departure of everything that Applebaum did in the following three decades. Her much-praised history books about the Soviet Gulag and the establishment of the communist regimes in Central Europe were her historical introduction to the inevitability of 1989.}}</ref>

== Career ==
As foreign correspondent for ''The Economist'' and ''[[The Independent]]'', she covered the [[fall of the Berlin Wall]] and the [[fall of communism]]. In 1991 she returned to England to work for ''The Economist''; she was later hired as the foreign editor and subsequently deputy editor of ''[[The Spectator]]'', and later the political editor of the ''[[Evening Standard]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Anne Applebaum |url=https://ninedotsprize.org/board_members/anne-applebaum/ |access-date=September 1, 2022 |website=The Nine Dots Prize |language=en-GB}}</ref> In 1994, she published her first book, ''Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe'', a travelogue that described the rise of nationalism across the new states of the former Soviet Union.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hopley |first=Claire |title=Book Review: 'Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe' |url=https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jul/23/book-review-between-east-and-west-across-the-borde/ |date=July 23, 2017 |access-date=September 1, 2022 |website=The Washington Times |language=en-US}}</ref> In 2001, she interviewed prime minister [[Tony Blair]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Applebaum|first=Anne|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4722273/I-am-still-normal.html|title=I am still normal|work=The Telegraph|date=March 19, 2001|access-date=September 27, 2021}}</ref> She also undertook historical research for her book ''Gulag: A History'' (2003), about the Soviet prison camp system, which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.<ref name="NYT20040405" /><ref name="Idaho">{{cite web|url=http://archives.mtexpress.com/index2.php?ID=2005102224&var_Year=2004&var_Month=11&var_Day=17|title=From concentration camps to cotton|date=March 25, 2005 |work=Idaho Mountain express and guide.|publisher=Express publishing inc.|access-date=October 3, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/works/2004-General-Nonfiction|title=The 2004 Pulitzer Prize Winners General Nonfiction|access-date=October 3, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091002161041/http://www.pulitzer.org/works/2004-General-Nonfiction|archive-date=October 2, 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref> It was also nominated for a National Book Award, the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' book award, and the [[National Book Critics Circle Award]].<ref>[https://www.randomhouseacademic.com/search?q=Gulag%3A+A+History Award Winning Books]{{Dead link|date=February 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, [[Random House]] website</ref>
{{external media| float = right| video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?175993-1/gulag-history- ''Booknotes'' interview with Applebaum on ''Gulag'', May 25, 2003], [[C-SPAN]]| video2 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?309623-1/qa-anne-applebaum ''Q&A'' interview with Applebaum on ''Iron Curtain'', December 16, 2012], [[C-SPAN]] }}
Applebaum has been a member of the editorial board of ''The Washington Post'',<ref name="Anne Applebaum" /> and was a columnist for the newspaper for 17 years.<ref name="Atlantic2019115">{{cite news|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/press-releases/archive/2019/11/anne-applebaum-joins-atlantic-staff-writer/602083/|title=Press Release: Anne Applebaum Joins The Atlantic as Staff Writer|work=The Atlantic|date=November 15, 2019|access-date=March 2, 2020}}</ref> In addition, she was an [[Adjunct professor|adjunct]] [[fellow]] at the [[American Enterprise Institute]], a conservative think tank.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=17660|title=Turning Abkhazia into a War |last=Leonard |first=Brooke|date=May 8, 2008|work=[[National Interest]]|location=New York City |access-date=December 31, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113214131/http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=17660 |archive-date=January 13, 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Her second history book, ''Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944–56'', was published in 2012 by [[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]] (in the US) and [[Allen Lane (imprint)|Allen Lane]] (in the UK); it was nominated for a [[National Book Award]] and shortlisted for the 2013 [[PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pen.org/literature/2013-penjohn-kenneth-galbraith-award|title=2013 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award – PEN America|website=Pen.org|date=July 25, 2013 |access-date=April 3, 2017}}</ref> From 2011 to 2016, she created and ran the Transitions Forum at the [[Legatum Institute]], an international think tank and educational charity based in London. Among other projects, she ran a two-year program examining the relationship between democracy and growth in Brazil, India, and South Africa;<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.li.com/programmes/democracy-works|title=Democracy Works|website=li.com|language=en|access-date=April 17, 2017|archive-date=January 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190128191107/https://www.li.com/programmes/democracy-works|url-status=dead}}</ref> created the Future of Syria<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Ghani |first1=Ashraf |last2=Lockhart |first2=Clare |title=Preparing for a Syrian Transition: Lessons from the Past, Thinking for the Future |url=https://lif.blob.core.windows.net/lif/docs/default-source/publications/preparing-for-a-syrian-transition_ghani_lockhart_november-2012.pdf?sfvrsn=0 |access-date=May 24, 2025}}</ref> and Future of Iran<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.li.com/programmes/the-future-of-iran|title=The Future of Iran |website=li.com |language=en|access-date=April 17, 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170418081945/http://www.li.com/programmes/the-future-of-iran|archive-date=April 18, 2017}}</ref> projects on institutional change in those countries; and commissioned a series of papers on corruption in Georgia,<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Pomerantsev |first1=Peter |last2=Robertson |first2=Geoffrey |last3=Ratković |first3=Jovan |last4=Applebaum |first4=Anne |date=June 2014 |title=Revolutionary Tactics: Insights from Police and Justice Reform in Georgia |url=https://lif.blob.core.windows.net/lif/docs/default-source/publications/georgia_transitions_a4_2014web.pdf?sfvrsn=0 }}</ref> Moldova,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Soloviev |first=Vladimir |date=July 2014 |others=Translated and edited by Olga Khvostunova |title=Moldova: The Failing Champion of European Integration |url=https://lif.blob.core.windows.net/lif/docs/default-source/publications/moldova-the-failing-champion-of-european-integration-a4.pdf?sfvrsn=0 }}</ref> and Ukraine.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bullough |first=Oliver |date=July 2014 |title=Looting Ukraine: How East and West Teamed up to Steal a Country |url=https://lif.blob.core.windows.net/lif/docs/default-source/publications/ukraine_imr_a4_web.pdf?sfvrsn=0 }}</ref>

With ''[[Foreign Policy]]'' magazine she created Democracy Lab, a website focusing on countries in transition toward or away from democracy;<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.li.com/programmes/democracy-lab|title=Democracy Lab|website=li.com|language=en|access-date=April 17, 2017|archive-date=January 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190128191150/https://www.li.com/programmes/democracy-lab|url-status=dead}}</ref> this later became Democracy Post<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/|title=DemocracyPost|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=April 17, 2017}}</ref> at ''The Washington Post''. In 2016, she left Legatum because of its stance on Brexit after the [[Euroscepticism|Euroskeptic]] [[Philippa Stroud, Baroness Stroud|Philippa Stroud]] was appointed CEO;<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/londoners-diary/londoners-diary-loves-legatum-lost-in-battle-over-brexit-a3415381.html|title=Londoner's Diary: Love's Legatum Lost in battle over Brexit|date=December 8, 2016|work=Evening Standard|access-date=April 17, 2017|language=en-GB}}</ref> Applebaum then joined the London School of Economics (LSE) as a professor of practice at the [[London School of Economics#LSE Institute of Global Affairs|Institute for Global Affairs]]. At the LSE, she ran Arena, a program on disinformation and 21st-century propaganda.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lse.ac.uk/iga/people/home.aspx|title=People |publisher=London School of Economics|language=en-GB|access-date=April 13, 2020}}{{Dead link|date=February 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> In 2019, she moved the program to the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University.<ref name="snfagora.jhu.edu" />

In 2017, she published her third history book, ''[[Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine]],'' a history of the [[Holodomor]] (the 1932–33 human-made famine in Soviet Ukraine). The book won the [[Lionel Gelber Prize]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/anne-applebaums-red-famine-wins-the-2018-lionel-gelber-prize-676698163.html|title=Anne Applebaum's Red Famine Wins the 2018 Lionel Gelber Prize|last=Prize|first=The Lionel Gelber|website=newswire.ca|language=en|access-date=April 13, 2020}}</ref> and the [[Duff Cooper Prize]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theduffcooperprize.org/past-duff-cooper-prize-winners|title=Past Winners of The Duff Cooper Prize – The Duff Cooper Prize|website=theduffcooperprize.org|access-date=April 13, 2020|archive-date=September 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190912231809/http://www.theduffcooperprize.org/past-duff-cooper-prize-winners|url-status=dead}}</ref> making her the only author to win the Duff Cooper Prize twice.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cowdrey |first=Katherine |date=May 11, 2018 |title=Applebaum wins Duff Cooper Prize for a second time |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/news/applebaum-wins-pol-roger-duff-cooper-prize-second-time-784531 |access-date=March 15, 2022 |website=The Bookseller |language=En}}</ref>

In November 2019, ''The Atlantic'' announced that Applebaum would join the publication as a staff writer starting in January 2020.<ref name="Atlantic2019115" /> She was included in ''[[Prospect (magazine)|Prospect]]'' magazine's 2020 list of the top 50 thinkers for the [[COVID-19 pandemic|COVID-19 era]].<ref>{{Cite magazine|year=2020|title=The world's top 50 thinkers for the Covid-19 age|url=https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/content/uploads/2020/09/PWTT20.pdf|magazine=Prospect|access-date=September 8, 2020|archive-date=September 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200907185002/https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/content/uploads/2020/09/PWTT20.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
{{external media| float = right| video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?474421-1/twilight-democracy Presentation by Applebaum on ''Twilight of Democracy'', July 21, 2020], [[C-SPAN]]}}
In July 2020, her book ''[[Twilight of Democracy|Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism]]'' was published. Partly a memoir and partly political analysis, it was on the bestseller lists of ''[[Der Spiegel]]'' magazine<ref>{{Cite web|title=Spiegel Bestseller: Sachbuch / Hardcover (Nr. 13/2021) – versandkostenfrei online kaufen – Lehmanns.de|url=https://www.lehmanns.de/listing/2280-spiegel-bestseller-sachbuch-hardcover-nr-13-2021|access-date=September 27, 2021|website=lehmanns.de|language=de|archive-date=September 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927145701/https://www.lehmanns.de/listing/2280-spiegel-bestseller-sachbuch-hardcover-nr-13-2021|url-status=dead}}</ref> and [[The New York Times Best Seller list|''The New York Times''.]]<ref>{{Cite news|title=Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction – Best Sellers – Books – August 9, 2020 – The New York Times|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/2020/08/09/combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction/|access-date=September 27, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Also in July 2020, Applebaum was one of 153 signers of the "Harper's Letter" (also known as "[[A Letter on Justice and Open Debate]]"); this expressed concern that "the free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted."<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=July 7, 2020 |title=A Letter on Justice and Open Debate {{!}} Harper's Magazine |url=https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/ |access-date=August 23, 2022 |magazine=Harper's Magazine |language=en}}</ref>

In November 2022, Applebaum was one of 200 US citizens sanctioned by Russia for "promotion of the Russophobic campaign and support for the regime in Kiev."<ref name="AFP_ban">{{cite news |title=Russia Bans Entry To Biden's Siblings, US Senators |url=https://www.barrons.com/news/russia-bans-entry-to-biden-s-siblings-us-senators-01668188406 |access-date=November 13, 2022 |work=Agence France Press |publisher=Barrons |date=November 11, 2022 |quote=The [Russian] foreign ministry said the 200 US nationals included officials and legislators, their close relatives, heads of companies and experts "involved in the promotion of the Russophobic campaign and support for the regime in Kiev" ... [including] US writer and Russia expert Anne Applebaum}}</ref>

Applebaum is a member of the [[Council on Foreign Relations]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cfr.org/about/membership/roster.html |title=Membership Roster – Council on Foreign Relations |website=Cfr.org |access-date=April 3, 2017}}</ref> She is on the boards of the [[National Endowment for Democracy]] and [[Renew Democracy Initiative]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ned.org/about/board-of-directors/|title=Board of Directors – NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY|website=Ned.org|language=en-US|access-date=March 28, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Boot |first=Max |date=April 25, 2018 |title=The political center is fighting back |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/the-political-center-is-fighting-back/2018/04/25/6170f646-489b-11e8-827e-190efaf1f1ee_story.html |newspaper=The Washington Post }}</ref> She is also on the editorial boards of ''[[The American Interest]]'' magazine<ref>{{cite web |title=Editorial board |url=http://www.the-american-interest.com/masthead/ |access-date=April 3, 2017 |publisher=The American Interest}}</ref> and the ''[[Journal of Democracy]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Masthead |url=https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/about/masthead/ |access-date=2025-08-12 |website=Journal of Democracy |language=en-US}}</ref> She was a member of the international board of directors of the [[Institute for War and Peace Reporting]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://iwpr.net/about|title=About IWPR {{!}} Institute for War and Peace Reporting|date=December 6, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141206145719/https://iwpr.net/about|access-date=January 17, 2020|archive-date=December 6, 2014}}</ref> In addition, she was a Senior Adjunct Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), where she co-led a major initiative aimed at countering Russian disinformation in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cepa.org/anne-aplebaum|title=Anne Applebaum {{!}} CEPA|date=April 9, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160409230453/http://cepa.org/anne-aplebaum|access-date=February 25, 2020|archive-date=April 9, 2016}}</ref>

== Positions ==
{{BLP primary sources|date=August 2025}}

=== Soviet Union and Russia ===

According to [[Sheila Fitzpatrick]], "Applebaum has been active as a political commentator highly critical of Russia and Putin's regime."<ref name=":0" /> [[Ivan Krastev]] wrote that the 1989 [[fall of the Berlin Wall]] "was the point of departure of everything that Applebaum did in the following three decades...For her, the end of the [[Cold War]] was not a geopolitical story; it was a moral story, a verdict pronounced by history itself."<ref name="Krastev2020">{{cite news |author1=Ivan Krastev |author1-link=Ivan Krastev |title=The Tragic Romance of the Nostalgic Western Liberal |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/08/15/the-tragic-romance-of-the-middle-aged-western-liberal/ |access-date=May 30, 2024 |work=Foreign Policy |date=August 15, 2020 |quote=Applebaum’s political identity was made by her admiration for the moral courage of East European dissidents and her belief in the potential of the United States to make the world a better place.}}</ref>

In 2000, Applebaum described the links between the then-new president of Russia, [[Vladimir Putin]]; the former Soviet leader [[Yuri Andropov]]; and the former [[KGB]] agency.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.weeklystandard.com/secret-agent-man/article/12293|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170829140652/http://www.weeklystandard.com/secret-agent-man/article/12293|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 29, 2017|first=Applebaum|last=Anne|title=Secret Agent Man|date=April 10, 2000|work=Weekly Standard |access-date=April 3, 2017}}</ref> In 2008, she began speaking about ''[[Putinism]]'' as an anti-democratic ideology, though most people at the time still considered Putin a pro-Western pragmatist.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.americanacademy.de/home/program/past/putinism-ideology|title=American Academy}}{{Dead link|date=October 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref>

Applebaum has been a vocal critic of Western conduct toward the [[Russian military intervention in Ukraine]]. In a ''Washington Post'' on March 5, 2014, she maintained that the US and its allies should not continue to enable "the existence of a corrupt Russian regime that is destabilizing Europe", writing that Putin's actions had violated "a series of international treaties".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/anne-applebaum-russias-western-enablers/2014/03/05/bcba2a88-a4a6-11e3-8466-d34c451760b9_story.html |last=Applebaum|first=Anne|title=Russia's Western enablers |date=March 5, 2014 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] }}</ref> On March 7, in another article on ''The Daily Telegraph'', discussing an [[information war]], Applebaum argued that "a robust campaign to tell the truth about Crimea is needed to counter Moscow's lies".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/10683298/Russias-information-warriors-are-on-the-march-we-must-respond.html |last=Applebaum|first=Anne|title=Russia's information warriors are on the march – we must respond |date=March 7, 2014 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] }}</ref> At the end of August, she asked whether Ukraine should prepare for "total war" with Russia and whether central Europeans should join them.<ref>{{cite web |last=Applebaum |first=Anne |date=August 29, 2014 |title=War in Europe |url=http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2014/08/vladimir_putin_s_troops_have_invaded_ukraine_should_we_prepare_for_war_with.html |work=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]] |access-date=September 1, 2014 }}</ref> Critics of Applebaum's, including journalist [[Glenn Greenwald]], have called her a "warmonger" and a "[[Neoconservatism|neocon]]".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Greenwald |first=Glenn |title=Supreme Neocon Warmonger Anne Applebaum Awarded Peace Prize |url=https://greenwald.locals.com/post/5829272/supreme-neocon-warmonger-anne-applebaum-awarded-peace-prize |access-date=2025-03-14 |website=greenwald.locals.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Applebaum |first=Anne |date=2022-03-01 |title=The Impossible Suddenly Became Possible |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/03/putins-war-dispelled-the-worlds-illusions/623335/ |access-date=2025-03-14 |website=The Atlantic |language=en}}</ref>

In 2014, she wrote a review of [[Karen Dawisha]]'s book ''[[Putin's Kleptocracy]]'' for ''[[The New York Review of Books]]''; in it, she asked whether "the most important story of the past twenty years might not, in fact, have been the failure of democracy, but the rise of a new form of Russian authoritarianism".<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2014/12/18/how-he-and-his-cronies-stole-russia/|title=How He and His Cronies Stole Russia|last=Applebaum|first=Anne|website=The New York Review of Books|date=December 18, 2014|access-date=April 3, 2017}}</ref> She has described the "myth of Russian humiliation" and argued that [[NATO]] and [[Enlargement of the European Union|EU expansion]] have been a "phenomenal success".<ref>{{cite news|last=Applebaum|first=Anne|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/anne-applebaum-nato-pays-a-heavy-price-for-giving-russia-too-much-credita-true-achievement-under-threat/2014/10/17/5b3a6f2a-5617-11e4-809b-8cc0a295c773_story.html|title=The myth of Russian humiliation|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=October 17, 2014|access-date=April 3, 2017|issn=0190-8286}}</ref> In July 2016, before the [[2016 United States presidential election|US election]], she wrote about connections between [[Donald Trump]] and Russia;<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/how-a-trump-presidency-could-destabilize-europe/2016/07/21/9ec38a20-4f75-11e6-a422-83ab49ed5e6a_story.html|title=How a Trump presidency could destabilize Europe |last=Applebaum |first=Anne|date=July 21, 2016|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=April 3, 2017|issn=0190-8286}}</ref> she wrote that Russian support for Trump was part of a wider Russian political campaign designed to destabilize the West.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Applebaum|first1=Anne|last2=Lucas|first2=Edward |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-danger-of-russian-disinformation/2016/05/06/b31d9718-12d5-11e6-8967-7ac733c56f12_story.html|title=The danger of Russian disinformation|date=May 6, 2016|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=April 3, 2017|issn=0190-8286}}</ref> In December 2019, she wrote in ''The Atlantic'', "in the 21st century, we must also contend with a new phenomenon: right-wing intellectuals, now deeply critical of their own societies, who have begun paying court to right-wing dictators who dislike America."<ref>{{Cite web|last=Applebaum|first=Anne|date=December 12, 2019|title=The False Romance of Russia|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/12/false-romance-russia/603433/|access-date=September 27, 2021|work=The Atlantic|language=en}}</ref>

=== Press freedom ===
Applebaum's 2018 Washington Post article "This Is Why So Many Journalists Are At Risk Today" highlighted attacks on press freedom by "authoritarian and autocratic regimes".<ref>{{Cite news |date=2018-10-14 |title=Opinion {{!}} This is why so many journalists are at risk today |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/this-is-why-so-many-journalists-are-at-risk-today/2018/10/14/2c8ffd30-ce3f-11e8-a3e6-44daa3d35ede_story.html |access-date=2025-09-06 |newspaper=The Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}</ref>

In "Kill the Messenger: Why Palestine radio and TV studios are fair targets in the Palestine/Israeli war", Applebaum justified the bombing of the official Palestinian media and said that it was  "a combatant—and therefore a legitimate target—in a painful, never-ending, low-intensity war".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Applebaum |first=Anne |date=2002-01-21 |title=Kill the Messenger |url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2002/01/targeting-radio-and-tv-stations.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250803204841/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2002/01/targeting-radio-and-tv-stations.html |archive-date=2025-08-03 |access-date=2025-09-28 |work=Slate |language=en-US |issn=1091-2339}}</ref> But in a 2024 interview, she denied that "radio stations or television stations are actually legitimate military targets".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wilkens |first=Kathryn |date=2024-10-25 |title='He's Talking Like Hitler': The Atlantic's Anne Applebaum Warns Trump Wants 'Absolute Power' in Second Term |url=https://www.mediaite.com/media/podcasts/hes-talking-like-hitler-the-atlantics-anne-applebaum-warns-trump-wants-absolute-power-in-second-term/ |access-date=2025-09-06 |website=Mediaite |language=en}}</ref>

=== Central Europe ===

Applebaum has written about the history of central and eastern Europe, Poland in particular. In the conclusion to her book ''Iron Curtain'', she argues that the reconstruction of civil society was the most important and most difficult challenge for the post-communist states of central Europe; in another essay, she argued that the modern authoritarian obsession with civil society repression dates to [[Vladimir Lenin]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Applebaum|first=Anne|date=October 19, 2015|title=The Leninist Roots of Civil Society Repression|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/595919|journal=Journal of Democracy |volume=26 |issue=4|pages=21–27|doi=10.1353/jod.2015.0068|s2cid=146420524 |issn=1086-3214|url-access=subscription}}</ref> She has written essays on the Polish filmmaker [[Andrzej Wajda]];<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2008/02/14/a-movie-that-matters/|title=A Movie That Matters|last=Applebaum|first=Anne|website=The New York Review of Books|access-date=April 11, 2017}}</ref> the dual Nazi–Soviet occupation of central Europe;<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2010/11/11/worst-madness/ |title=The Worst of the Madness|last=Applebaum|first=Anne|website=The New York Review of Books|access-date=April 11, 2017}}</ref> and why it is inaccurate to define ''Eastern Europe'' as a single entity.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/does-eastern-europe-still-exist|first=Applebaum|last=Anne|title=Does Eastern Europe still exist? |website=Prospect Magazine |language=en-US|access-date=April 11, 2017}}</ref>

=== Disinformation, propaganda and fake news ===

Applebaum wrote about a 2014 Russian smear campaign against her while she was writing heavily about the [[Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation|Russian annexation of Crimea]]. She said that dubious online material was eventually recycled by semi-respectable American pro-Russia websites.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Applebaum|first=Anne|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/i-was-a-victim-of-a-russian-smear-campaign-i-understand-the-power-of-fake-news/2016/12/20/0dfdc2aa-c606-11e6-8bee-54e800ef2a63_story.html|title=I was a victim of a Russian smear campaign. I understand the power of fake news. |date=December 20, 2016|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=April 11, 2017|issn=0190-8286}}</ref> Applebaum argued in 2015 that Facebook should take responsibility for spreading false stories and help "undo the terrible damage done by Facebook and other forms of social media to democratic debate and civilized discussion all over the world".<ref>{{Cite news|last=Applebaum|first=Anne|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mark-zuckerberg-could-spend-45-billion-on-undoing-facebooks-damage/2015/12/10/4b7d1ba0-9e91-11e5-a3c5-c77f2cc5a43c_story.html|title=Mark Zuckerberg should spend $45&nbsp;billion on undoing Facebook's damage to democracies|date=December 10, 2015|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=April 11, 2017|issn=0190-8286}}</ref> Applebaum has been a member of the advisory panel for the organization [[Global Disinformation Index]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://reason.com/2023/02/28/global-disinformation-index-lab-leak-theory-media-misinfo/ |title=Global Disinformation Index, Inform Thyself |publisher=Reason |date=28 February 2023 |first=Robby |last=Soave |access-date=22 June 2024}}</ref>

=== Nationalism ===

In March 2016, during the [[2016 United States presidential election|2016 US election campaign]], Applebaum wrote a column for ''The Washington Post'' asking, "Is this the end of the West as we know it?"; the column argued that "we are two or three bad elections away from the end of NATO, the end of the European Union and maybe the end of the liberal world order".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/donald-trump-and-the-end-of-nato/2016/03/04/e8c4b9ca-e146-11e5-8d98-4b3d9215ade1_story.html|title=Is this the end of the West as we know it? |last=Applebaum|first=Anne|date=March 4, 2016|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=April 3, 2017 |language=en-US|issn=0190-8286}}</ref> Applebaum endorsed [[Hillary Clinton]] for president in July 2016, on the grounds that Trump is "a man who appears bent on destroying the alliances that preserve international peace and American power".<ref>{{cite news|last=Applebaum|first=Anne|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/why-we-need-a-president-clinton/2016/07/28/aaa40e76-54ef-11e6-bbf5-957ad17b4385_story.html|title=Why we need a President Clinton|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=July 28, 2016}}</ref>

Applebaum wrote a ''Washington Post'' column in March 2016 that led the Swiss newspaper ''[[Tages-Anzeiger]]'' and the German magazine ''[[Der Spiegel]]'' to interview her. These articles appeared in December 2016<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/ausland/amerika/es-liegt-etwas-aehnliches-in-der-luft-wie-in-den-1930erjahren/story/27519272 |title=Ähnlich wie in den 1930er-Jahren |last1=Cassidy |first1=Alan |last2=Loser |first2=Philipp |date=December 27, 2016 |work=Tages-Anzeiger |access-date=April 3, 2017 |language=de |issn=1422-9994}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/anne-applebaum-interview-about-president-donald-trump-a-1130988.html |title=Historian Anne Applebaum on Trump: 'Protest Is Insufficient' |website=Der Spiegel |date=January 20, 2017 |access-date=April 20, 2017|last1=Scheuermann |first1=Christoph |last2=Repinski |first2=Gordon }}</ref> and January 2017. She wrote that the international populist movement frequently called "far right" or "[[alt-right]]" is not ''conservative'' as this term has traditionally been defined. She wrote that populist groups in Europe share "ideas and ideology, friends and founders"; unlike [[Burkean]] conservatives, they seek to "overthrow the institutions of the present to bring back things that existed in the past—or that they believe existed in the past—by force."<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/trump-is-a-threat-to-the-west-as-we-know-it-even-if-he-loses/2016/11/04/a8dc9100-a2cc-11e6-a44d-cc2898cfab06_story.html|title=Trump is a threat to the West as we know it, even if he loses|last=Applebaum|first=Anne|date=November 4, 2016|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=April 3, 2017 |language=en-US|issn=0190-8286}}</ref> Applebaum has underlined the danger of a new "Nationalist [[Political international|International]]", a union of xenophobic, nationalist parties such as [[Law and Justice (Poland)|Law and Justice]] in Poland, the [[Lega Nord|Northern League]] in Italy, and the [[Freedom Party of Austria|Freedom Party]] in Austria.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/gdpr-consent/?destination=%2fopinions%2fglobal-opinions%2fthe-anti-europeans-have-a-plan-for-crippling-the-european-union%2f2019%2f01%2f13%2fd8af6ab0-15ed-11e9-b6ad-9cfd62dbb0a8_story.html%3f|first=Applebaum|last=Anne|title=The anti-Europeans have a plan for crippling the European Union|date=January 15, 2019|newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref>

In January 2022, Applebaum was invited to testify before the [[United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs|Foreign Affairs Committee]] of the [[United States House of Representatives|US House of Representatives]]; the committee hearing was titled "Bolstering Democracy in the Age of Rising Authoritarianism".<ref>{{Cite web|date=January 20, 2022|title=Roundtable: Bolstering Democracy in the Age of Rising Authoritarianism|url=https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/2022/1/bolstering-democracy-in-the-age-of-rising-authoritarianism_2|access-date=January 18, 2022|website=House Foreign Affairs Committee|language=en|archive-date=January 18, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220118223701/https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/2022/1/bolstering-democracy-in-the-age-of-rising-authoritarianism_2|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Personal life==
In 1992, Applebaum married [[Radosław Sikorski]], who later served as Poland's [[Ministry of National Defence (Poland)|Minister of National Defence]], [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Poland)|Minister of Foreign Affairs]], [[Marshal of the Sejm]], and as a member of the [[European Parliament]]. Sikorski is serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs in [[Third Cabinet of Donald Tusk|Donald Tusk's Third Cabinet]]. The couple have two sons.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.msz.gov.pl/Minister,of,Foreign,Affairs,Radoslaw,Sikorski,13614.html|title=Minister of Foreign Affairs Radosław Sikorski|date=April 23, 2008|publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080411205952/http://www.msz.gov.pl/Minister%2Cof%2CForeign%2CAffairs%2CRadoslaw%2CSikorski%2C13614.html|archive-date=April 11, 2008|url-status=live|access-date=April 23, 2008|quote=Radosław Sikorski is married to journalist and writer Anne Applebaum, who won the 2004 Pulitzer prize for her book "Gulag: A History". They have two sons: Aleksander and Tadeusz.}}</ref> Applebaum gained [[Polish citizenship]] in 2013;<ref>{{cite news
 |url=http://www.polskatimes.pl/artykul/981469,anne-applebaum-zona-radoslawa-sikorskiego-to-dzis-jedna-z-najbardziej-wplywowych-polek,id,t.html
 |title=Anne Applebaum. Żona Radosława Sikorskiego to dziś jedna z najbardziej wpływowych Polek |newspaper=Portal I.pl |access-date=August 31, 2013
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 |publisher=Times of Polska
 |quote=Anne Applebaum jest już pełnoprawną Polką.<!--DASHBot-->}}</ref> she speaks Polish and Russian in addition to English.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Long |first1=Karen R. |title=Anne Applebaum's new investigative history, 'Iron Curtain,' is essential reading |work=[[The Plain Dealer]] |url=http://www.cleveland.com/books/index.ssf/2012/11/anne_applebaums_new_investigat.html |date=November 10, 2012 |access-date=August 30, 2017 }}</ref>

In July 2025, Applebaum delivered the opening address at the [[Salzburg Festival]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Warning about democracy and protest for Gaza at Salzburg Festival |url=https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/warning-about-democracy-and-protest-for-gaza-at-salzburg-festival/ar-AA1JlvWU |access-date=2025-07-28 |website=www.msn.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-07-26 |title=Anne Applebaum: "Wir praktizieren keine Demokratie" |url=https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000280987/anne-applebaum-wir-praktizieren-keine-demokratie |access-date=2025-07-28 |website=[[Der Standard]] |language=de-AT}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2025-07-26 |title=Anne Applebaum: "Die Salzburger Festspiele sind das, was Autokraten fürchten" |url=https://www.diepresse.com/19933441/anne-applebaum-die-salzburger-festspiele-sind-das-was-autokraten-fuerchten |access-date=2025-07-28 |website=[[Die Presse]] |language=de-at}}</ref>

==Awards and honors==
* 1992 [[Charles Douglas-Home (journalist)|Charles Douglas-Home]] [[Charles Douglas-Home (journalist)#Memorial Trust Award|Memorial Trust Award]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Hoover Archives Summer Workshop 2011 |url=https://www.hoover.org/events/hoover-archives-summer-workshop-2011 |website=Hoover Institution Library and Archives |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=21 July 2025 |quote=In 1992, Applebaum won the Charles Douglas-Home Memorial Trust award for journalism in the ex-Soviet Union.}}</ref> 
* 2003 [[National Book Award]] Nonfiction, finalist, for ''Gulag: A History''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-2003 |title=2003 National Book Awards Winners and Finalists, The National Book Foundation |website=Nationalbook.org |access-date=April 3, 2017}}</ref>
* 2003 [[Duff Cooper Prize]] for ''Gulag: A History''
* 2004 [[Pulitzer Prize]] (General Nonfiction) for ''Gulag: A History''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/General-Nonfiction |title=The Pulitzer Prizes General Nonfiction |work=[[Pulitzer Prize]] |access-date=November 28, 2012}}</ref>
* 2008 Estonian [[Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana]] third class
* 2008 Lithuanian Millennium Star<ref>{{cite web |author=Agnieszka Kazimierczuk |url=http://www.rp.pl/artykul/209126-Applebaum-otrzymala--Gwiazde-Millenium-Litwy--.html |title=Applebaum otrzymała "Gwiazdę Millenium Litwy" – Literatura |website=Rzeczpospolita |access-date=April 3, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170328195238/http://www.rp.pl/artykul/209126-Applebaum-otrzymala--Gwiazde-Millenium-Litwy--.html |archive-date=March 28, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* 2010 [[Petőfi Prize]]
* 2012 Officer's Cross of the [[Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.prezydent.pl/archiwum-bronislawa-komorowskiego/aktualnosci/ordery-i-odznaczenia/art,1157,odznaczenia-panstwowe-w-swieto-niepodleglosci.html |title=Odznaczenia państwowe w Święto Niepodległości / Ordery i odznaczenia / Aktualności / Archiwum Bronisława Komorowskiego / Oficjalna strona Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej |website=Prezydent.pl |access-date=April 3, 2017 |archive-date=September 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927064202/https://www.prezydent.pl/archiwum-bronislawa-komorowskiego/aktualnosci/ordery-i-odznaczenia/art,1157,odznaczenia-panstwowe-w-swieto-niepodleglosci.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* 2012 [[National Book Award]] (Nonfiction), finalist, for ''Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944–1956''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2012/10/in-the-bookroom/national-book-award-finalists-announced-today/ |title=National Book Award Finalists Announced Today |work=[[Library Journal]] |date=October 10, 2012 |access-date=November 15, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121206014159/http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2012/10/in-the-bookroom/national-book-award-finalists-announced-today/ |archive-date=December 6, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* 2013 [[Cundill Prize in Historical Literature]] for ''Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944–1956''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/anne-applebaum-wins-2013-cundill-prize-231726|title=Ann Applebaum wins 2013 Cundill Prize|author=Press Release|publisher=McGill University|date=November 21, 2013|access-date=December 24, 2013}}</ref>
* 2013 [[Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature]] for ''Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944–1956''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://rusi.org/event/duke-westminster-medal-military-literature-2013|title=Duke of Westminster Medal for Military Literature 2013|author=Royal United Services Institute|author-link=Royal United Services Institute|date=December 5, 2013|access-date=January 21, 2017|archive-date=March 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210305050926/https://rusi.org/event/duke-westminster-medal-military-literature-2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* 2017 Doctor of Humane Letters Honoris Causa, [[Georgetown University]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehoya.com/commencement-speakers-present-varied-experiences/|title=Commencement Speakers Present Varied Experiences|date=May 19, 2017|access-date=May 22, 2017|language=en-US|archive-date=May 23, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170523035053/http://www.thehoya.com/commencement-speakers-present-varied-experiences/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* 2017 [[Honorary Doctorate]], [[National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://kmfoundation.org/2017/9540|title=Anne Applebaum receives an Honorary Doctorate at NaUKMA|date=December 16, 2017|work=Kyiv Mohyla Foundation of America|access-date=December 22, 2017|language=en-US|archive-date=December 23, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171223044056/http://kmfoundation.org/2017/9540|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* 2017 [[Duff Cooper Prize]] for ''Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine''
* 2017 [[Antonovych Prize]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ukrweekly.com/uwwp/anne-applebaum-honored-with-antonovych-award/|title=Anne Applebaum honored with Antonovych Award|work=The Ukrainian Weekly|date=November 10, 2017|first=Yaro|last=Bihun|access-date=January 1, 2022}}</ref>
* 2018 [[Lionel Gelber Prize]] for ''Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine''<ref>Press Release: [https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/anne-applebaums-red-famine-wins-the-2018-lionel-gelber-prize-676698163.html Anne Applebaum's Red Famine Wins the 2018 Lionel Gelber Prize], CISION, March 13, 2018. Retrieved September 14, 2018.</ref>
* 2018 Honorary Fritz Stern Professor, [[University of Wrocław]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://kultura.dziennik.pl/news/artykuly/582454,anne-applebaum-laureatka-nagroda-fritz-stern.html|title=Anne Applebaum uhonorowana prestiżową nagrodą im. Fritza Sterna|date=October 3, 2018}}</ref>
* 2019 Premio Nonino "Maestro del nostro tempo" ("Master of our Time")<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://premio.grappanonino.it/en/winner/anne-applebaum/|title=Anne Applebaum|website=Premio Nonino 2018|language=en-US|access-date=January 26, 2019}}</ref>
* 2019 [[Order of Princess Olga]], third class<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2019/11/23/7232839/|title=Зеленський нагородив іноземок за діяльність щодо правди про Голодомор|website=Українська правда}}</ref>
* 2021 National Magazine Awards finalist in categories "Essays and Criticism" and "Columns and Commentary"<ref>{{Cite web|title=The American Society of Magazine Editors Announce Finalists for 2021 National Magazine Awards|url=https://www.asme.media/the-american-society-of-magazine-editors-announce-finalists-for-2021-national-magazine-awards|access-date=May 13, 2021|website=asme.media}}</ref>
* 2021 Premio Internacional de Periodismo de [[El Mundo (Spain)|EL MUNDO]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=December 1, 2021|title=El Prado de Anne Applebaum, de El Bosco a 'Duelo a garrotazos'|url=https://www.elmundo.es/papel/cultura/2021/12/01/61a762fefdddffa71c8b45c5.html|access-date=December 10, 2021|website=ELMUNDO|language=es}}</ref>
* 2021 Elected [[Royal Society of Literature|Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-09-01 |title=Applebaum, Anne |url=https://rsliterature.org/fellows/anne-applebaum/,%20https://rsliterature.org/fellows/anne-applebaum/ |access-date=2025-07-09 |website=Royal Society of Literature |language=en-GB}}</ref>
* 2022 [[Order of Princess Olga]], second class<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 23, 2022 |title=Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 595/2022 |url=https://www.president.gov.ua/documents/5952022-43765 |access-date=September 12, 2022 |newspaper=Офіційне Інтернет-Представництво Президента України}}</ref>
* 2024 [[Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels]]<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Anne Applebaum wins German peace prize for 2024 – DW – 06/25/2024 |url=https://www.dw.com/en/anne-applebaum-wins-german-peace-prize-for-2024/a-69463118 |access-date=2024-06-27 |website=dw.com |language=en}}</ref>

==Selected publications==
* ''Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe'', Pantheon, (1994), reprinted by Random House, 1995; Penguin, 2015; and Anchor, 2017, {{isbn|0679421505}}
* ''[[Gulag: A History]]'', [[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]], (2003), 677 pages, {{ISBN|0-7679-0056-1}}; paperback, [[Bantam Books|Bantam]] [[Dell Publishing|Dell]], 2004, 736 pages, {{ISBN|1-4000-3409-4}}
* ''Gulag Voices : An Anthology'', Yale University Press, (2011), 224 pages, {{ISBN|9780300177831}}; hardback
* ''Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944–1956'', [[Penguin Books|Allen Lane]], (2012), 614 pages, {{ISBN|978-0-713-99868-9}} / Doubleday {{ISBN|978-0-385-51569-6}}
* ''From a Polish Country House Kitchen'', Chronicle Books, (2012), 288 pages, {{ISBN|1-452-11055-7}}; hardback
* ''[[Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine]],'' [[Penguin Random House|Penguin Randomhouse]], (2017)<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/236713/red-famine-by-anne-applebaum/9780385538855/|title=Red Famine by Anne Applebaum {{!}} PenguinRandomHouse.com|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/25/red-famine-stalins-war-on-ukraine-anne-applebaum-review?CMP=share_btn_fb|title=Red Famine by Anne Applebaum review – did Stalin deliberately let Ukraine starve?|last=Fitzpatrick|first=Sheila|author-link=Sheila Fitzpatrick|quote=For scholars, the most interesting part of the book will be the two excellent historiographical chapters in which she teases out the political and scholarly impulses tending to minimise the famine in Soviet times ('The Cover-Up') and does the same for post-Soviet Ukrainian exploitation of the issue ('The Holodomor in History and Memory')|date=August 25, 2017|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=August 25, 2017}}</ref>
* ''[[Twilight of Democracy|Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism]]'', Doubleday, (2020), 224 pages, {{ISBN|978-0385545808}}; hardback
* ''Wybór'' (Choice), Agora, (2021), 320 pages, {{ISBN|978-8326838255}}; hardback
* ''[[Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World]]'', Doubleday, (2024), 224 pages, {{ISBN|978-0385549936}}; hardback

==References==
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* [https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/anne-applebaum/ Anne Applebaum columns] for ''[[The Washington Post]]''
* {{YouTube|Wt_6mPxgUNI|Putinism: the ideology}} – 1:20 lecture by Anne Applebaum spoken in London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), recorded on Monday, January 28, 2013.
* [https://ukraineworld.org/en/articles/opinions/speech-frankfurt-book-fair 2024 Peace Prize Speech]
* [https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/1082-democracy-under-threat-anne-applebaum-and-timothy-snyder/ 2024 Interview] with [[Paul Wells]] about ''Autocracy, Inc.''
* ''[https://www.salzburg.gv.at/fileadmin/Dateien/Kultur/applebaum-festspiele2025_EN.pdf Democracy and the Music Festival]'' (2025)

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