Anne Applebaum (born 1964) is a journalist and author who has written extensively about issues related to communism and the development of civil society in Eastern Europe and the USSR / Russia. As of 2005, she is a columnist and member of the editorial board of the Washington Post. For the Nintendo 64 emulator, see 1964 (Emulator). ... Journalism is a discipline of collecting, verifying, analyzing and presenting information gathered regarding current events, including trends, issues and people. ... The word author has several meanings: The author of a book, story, article or the like, is the person who has written it (or is writing it). ... Vladimir Lenin in 1920 Leninism is a political and economic theory which builds upon Marxism; it is a branch of Marxism (and it has been the dominant branch of Marxism in the world since the 1920s). ... Civil society or civil institutions refers to the totality of voluntary civic and social organizations or institutions which form the basis of a functioning society as opposed to the force backed structures of a state (regardless of that states political system). ... Pre-1989 division between the West (grey) and Eastern Bloc (orange) superimposed on current national boundaries: Russia (dark orange), other countries of the former USSR (medium orange) and other former communist regimes (light orange). ... 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A columnist is a journalist who produces a specific form of writing for publication called a column. Columns appear in newspapers, magazines and the Internet. ... The editorial board is a group of people, usually at a print publication, who dictate the tone and direction the publications editorials will take. ... ...

Born in Washington, DC in 1964, she attended Yale University, and was a Marshall Scholar at the London School of Economics and St Antony's College, Oxford before moving to Warsaw, Poland in 1988. Working for The Economist, she provided rich firsthand (unsigned) coverage of important social and political transitions in Eastern Europe, both before and after the Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, which she also reported. In 1992 she was awarded the Charles Douglas-Home Memorial Trust Award. Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United... For the Nintendo 64 emulator, see 1964 (Emulator). ... Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. ... The offical logo of the Marshall Scholarship is a blended image of the US and UK flags. ... The London School of Economics and Political Science, often referred to as the London School of Economics or simply the LSE, is a specialist university in London. ... St Antonys College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ... Warsaw (Polish: Warszawa, see also other names, in full The Capital City of Warsaw, Polish: Miasto Stołeczne Warszawa) is the capital of Poland and its largest city. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Economist is a weekly news and international affairs publication of The Economist Newspaper Limited in London. ... Berlin Wall on November 16, 1989 The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer) was a long barrier separating West Berlin from East Berlin and the surrounding territory of East Germany. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...

Applebaum lived in both London and Warsaw during the 1990s, and was for several years a widely-read columnist for London's Evening Standard newspaper. She wrote about the workings of Westminster, and opined on issues foreign and domestic. Part of the London skyline viewed from the South Bank London is the most populous city in the European Union, with an estimated population on 1 January 2005 of 7,421,328 and a metropolitan area population of between 12 and 14 million. ... Warsaw (Polish Warszawa, (?), in full The Capital City of Warsaw, Polish: Miasto Stołeczne Warszawa) is the capital of Poland and its largest city. ... // Events and trends The 1990s in its most obvious sense refers to the years 1990 to 1999, but has held a strong influence into the 2000s. ... Headlines of the Evening Standard on the day of London bombing on July 7, 2005, in Waterloo station The Evening Standard is a newspaper published in London. ... The Houses of Parliament, seen over Westminster Bridge The σParliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative institution in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories (it alone has parliamentary sovereignty). ...

Applebaum's first book, Between East and West, is a travelogue, and was awarded an Adolph Bentinck Prize in 1996. Her second book, Gulag: A History, was published in 2003 and was awarded the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction writing. The Pulitzer committee named Gulag: A History a "landmark work of historical scholarship and an indelible contribution to the complex, ongoing, necessary quest for truth." 1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... 2003 (MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from the revision dated 2005-04-13, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ...

Applebaum is fluent in English, French, Polish and Russian. She is married to Radek Sikorski, a Polish politician and writer, and they have two children, Alexander and Tadeusz. In 31 October 2005 her husband Radek took the post of Defence Minister in the new Polish Government. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Radosław (Radek) Sikorski (born 23 February 1963, Bydgoszcz), is a Polish politician and government minister. ... A politician is an individual involved in politics. ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ...

Further reading

• Anne Applebaum, Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe, Pantheon Books, October, 1994, hardcover, ISBN 0679421505; another hardcover edition, Random House, 1995, ISBN 0517159066 Introduction online
• Anne Applebaum, Gulag: A History, Doubleday, April, 2003, hardcover, 677 pages, ISBN 0767900561; trade paperback, Bantam Dell, 11 May, 2004, 736 pages, ISBN 1400034094 Introduction online

External links

• AnneApplebaum.com
• Biography on AnneApplebaum.com
• 2005 Pulitzer Prize citation for Gulag: A History
• Opinions, Washington Post (free registration required)

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