Anne Applebaum - Böcker

Enligt 2024 års demokratirapport från Göteborgs Universitet lever 71% av jordens befolkning i icke-demokratier. För tio år sedan var den siffran 48%. Den historiska bilden av en autokrati stämmer dåligt överens med vår tid. Numera styrs autokratie...

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**A Sunday Times Bestseller** The celebrated historian and journalist uncovers the networks trying to destroy the democratic world All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man at the top. But i...

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"Från Stettin vid Östersjön till Trieste vid Adriatiska havet har en järnridå sänkts tvärs över kontinenten." Winston Churchill, 1946 Den kritikerhyllade journalisten Anne Applebaum är tillbaka. Järnridån berättar historien om hur Östeur...

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Enligt 2024 års demokratirapport från Göteborgs Universitet lever 71% av jordens befolkning i icke-demokratier. För tio år sedan var den siffran 48%. Den historiska bilden av en autokrati stämmer dåligt överens med vår tid. Numera styrs autokratie...

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Historikern och journalisten Anne Applebaum skildrar den speciella politiska utvecklingen i många länder i Europa de senaste två decennierna. Metodiskt redogör hon för den antidemokratiska tendens som blivit alltmer tydlig i till exempel Polen och...

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År 1929 lanserade Stalin kollektivi¿seringen av lantbruket, något som kan beskrivas som den andra ryska revolutionen. Den tvingade miljoner bönder att lämna sina gårdar och inordna sig i kollektiv. Resultatet blev en katastrofal hungersnöd, den dö...

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From the United States and Britain to continental Europe and beyond, liberal democracy is under siege, while authoritarianism is on the rise. In Twilight of Democracy, Anne Applebaum, an award-winning historian of Soviet atrocities who was one of ...

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**A Sunday Times Bestseller**The celebrated historian and journalist uncovers the networks trying to destroy the democratic worldAll of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man at the top. But in ...

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This landmark book uncovers for the first time in detail one of the greatest horrors of the twentieth century: the vast system of Soviet camps that were responsible for the deaths of countless millions. Gulag is the only major history in any langu...

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This is chosen 16 times as a 'Book of the Year' - the top non-fiction pick of 2012. "The best work of modern history I have ever read". (A. N. Wilson, Financial Times). At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union unexpectedly fo...

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In 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivizationin effect a second Russian revolutionwhich forced millions of peasants off their land and onto collective farms. The result was a catastrophic famine, the most lethal in European h...

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The Gulag--a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners--was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In this...

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År 1929 lanserade Stalin kollektivi-seringen av lantbruket, något som kan beskrivas som den andra ryska revolutionen. Den tvingade miljoner bönder att lämna sina gårdar och inordna sig i kollektiv. Resultatet blev en katastrofal hungersnöd, den dö...

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A FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 'The most important non-fiction book of the year' David Hare In the years just before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, people from across the political spectrum i...

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Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism?an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history?now with a new introduction by Anne Applebaum. In recent years, The Origins of Totalitarianism has become essential readi...

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Historikern och journalisten Anne Applebaum skildrar den speciella politiska utvecklingen i många länder i Europa de senaste två decennierna. Metodiskt redogör hon för den antidemokratiska tendens som blivit alltmer tydlig i till exempel Polen och...

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author, professor, and historian offers an expert guide to understanding the appeal of the strongman as a leader and an explanation for why authoritarianism is back with a menacing twenty-first century twist. Across the ...

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Chosen 16 times as a 'Book of the Year' - the top non-fiction pick of 2012 'The best work of modern history I have ever read' A. N. Wilson, Financial Times At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union unexpectedly found...

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A mesmerising, chilling close-up portrayal of Stalin from Milovan Djilas, a Communist insider - with an introduction from Anne Applebaum, author of Gulag and Iron CurtainThis extraordinarily vivid and unnerving book three meetings held with Stalin...

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This landmark book uncovers for the first time in detail one of the greatest horrors of the twentieth century: the vast system of Soviet camps that were responsible for the deaths of countless millions. Gulag is the only major history in any langu...

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SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, FT AND EVENING STANDARD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017The momentous new book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Iron Curtain. In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately...

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Winner of the Duff Cooper and Lionel Gelber prizes In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the twentieth century. With u...

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A vivid and human glimpse into Europe's borderlands as they emerged from Soviet rule - back in print after nearly 20 years 'In this superb book, in which one senses the spirit of Franz Kafka and Bruno Schulz, the dramatic world of the Ea...

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A vivid and human glimpse into Europe''s borderlands as they emerged from Soviet rule - back in print after nearly 20 years ''In this superb book, in which one senses the spirit of Franz Kafka and Bruno Schulz, the dramatic world of the Eastern bo...

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A FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'The most important non-fiction book of the year' David HareIn the years just before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, people from across the political spectrum in Europe and...

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Brought to you by Penguin.In the years just before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, conservative politicians and intellectuals across Europe and America celebrated a great achievement, felt a common purpose and, very often, forged personal f...

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Anne Applebaum wields her considerable knowledge of a dark chapter in human history and presents a collection of the writings of survivors of the Gulag, the Soviet concentration camps. Although the opening of the Soviet archives to scholars has ma...

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A unique anthology of Gulag memoirs, edited and annotated by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Anne Applebaum Anne Applebaum wields her considerable knowledge of a dark chapter in human history and presents a collection of the wri...

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A unique anthology of Gulag memoirs, edited and annotated by Pulitzer Prizewinning author Anne Applebaum Anne Applebaum wields her considerable knowledge of a dark chapter in human history and presents a collection of the writings of survivors of ...

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From the Pulitzer-prize winning, New York Times bestselling author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them We think we know what an autocratic state looks l...

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