Iron Curtain
About the Author
Anne Applebaum is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist. She is currently a staff writer for The Atlantic and a senior fellow at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. Following her education at Yale, LSE and Oxford, Applebaum worked in Warsaw as a correspondent for The Economist and has since written widely for newspapers including the Washington Post and the Sunday Telegraph. Her award-winning books on Eastern Europe in the 20th century include Gulag: A History, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe and Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine. Most recently she is the author of Twilight of Democracy, on the rise of populist authoritarianism across the West. Applebaum introduced the Folio edition of The Origins of Totalitarianism (2022).