Anne Applebaum

Anne Applebaum was born in Washington in 1964. She is a professor at the London School of Economics and a columnist for the Washington Post and the New York Review of Books. She has worked as a foreign news editor and deputy editor for the "Spectator" magazine (London), as a correspondent in Warsaw for the "Economist," as well as for several British newspapers. Her work has also been published in the pages of the "New York Review of Books," "Foreign Affairs," and the "Wall Street Journal." She is the author of the book "Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe" (1995). In her book "Gulag: A History" (published by Iolkos, 2009), using new sources and her own genuine historical research, she undertakes for the first time to present a fully documented account of the Soviet camp system, from its origins dating back to the period of the Soviet Revolution to its collapse during the era of glasnost. She lives in Poland with her husband, Radek Sikorski, a Polish politician, and their two children.