Anne Applebaum is a columnist for The Washington Post and Slate. Her most recent book is Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944–1956. (June 2013)
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How to Succeed in Business
June 6, 2013
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
by Sheryl Sandberg with Nell Scovell
The End of Men and the Rise of Women
by Hanna Rosin
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How the Communists Inexorably Changed Life
November 22, 2012
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In the New World of Spies
October 25, 2012
The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin’s Secret Service
by Andrew Meier
Spies and Commissars: The Early Years of the Russian Revolution
by Robert Service
Stalin’s Romeo Spy: The Remarkable Rise and Fall of the KGB’s Most Daring Operative
by Emil Draitser
Deception: Spies, Lies and How Russia Dupes the West
by Edward Lucas
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Vladimir’s Tale
April 26, 2012
The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
by Masha Gessen
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‘The Worst of the Madness’
December 23, 2010
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The Worst of the Madness
November 11, 2010
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
by Timothy Snyder
Stalin’s Genocides
by Norman M. Naimark
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Yesterday’s Man?
February 11, 2010
Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic
by Michael Scammell
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A Mad, Bad, and Brutal Baron
July 16, 2009
The Bloody White Baron: The Extraordinary Story of the Russian Nobleman Who Became the Last Khan of Mongolia
by James Palmer
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Laughable and Tragic
October 23, 2008
The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke
by Timothy Snyder
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A Movie That Matters
February 14, 2008
Katyn a film directed by Andrzej Wajda, written by Andrzej Mularczyk and Andrzej Wajda
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How Hitler Could Have Won
October 25, 2007
The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II
by Andrew Nagorski
Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War
by Rodric Braithwaite
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The Real Patriotic War
April 6, 2006
Ivan’s War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939–1945
by Catherine Merridale
A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941–1945
edited and translated by Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova
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Hero
October 20, 2005
The KGB File of Andrei Sakharov
edited and annotated by Joshua Rubenstein and Alexander Gribanov
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Album from Hell
March 24, 2005
Gulag: Life and Death Inside the Soviet Concentration Camps
by Tomasz Kizny
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Pulling the Rug Out from Under
February 12, 2004
The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939
by Terry Martin
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The Worst of the Terror
July 17, 2003
Stalin’s Last Crime: The Plot Against the Jewish Doctors, 1948–1953
by Jonathan Brent and Vladimir P. Naumov
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A History of Horror
October 18, 2001
Le Siècle des camps
by Joël Kotek and Pierre Rigoulot
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Inside the Gulag
June 15, 2000
Sistema Ispravitelno-Trudovikh Lagerei v SSSR, 1923-1960: Spravochnik (The System of Labor Camps in the USSR, 1923-1960: A Guide) edited by N.G. Okhotin, by A.B. Roginsky
Labor Camp Socialism: The Gulag in the Soviet Totalitarian System
by Galina Mikhailovna Ivanova
Gulag v Komi Krai (The Gulag in the Komi Region) by N.A. Morozov
Gulag v Karelii (The Gulag in Karelia) edited by Vasily Makurov
Vyatlag by Viktor Berdinskikh
Polyansky ITL (Corrective Labor Camp) Zheleznogorska by S.P. Kuchin
Till My Tale Is Told: Women’s Memoirs of the Gulag edited by Vilensky Simeon