Anne Applebaum is a columnist and member of the editorial board of the Washington Post. A graduate of Yale and a Marshall Scholar, she has worked as the foreign and deputy editor of the Spectator (London), as the Warsaw correspondent for the Economist, and as a columnist for the online magazine Slate, as well as for several British newspapers. Her work has also appeared in the New York Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, and the Wall Street Journal, among many other publications. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, Radek Sikorski, and two children
Biography
Anne Applebaum is a columnist and member of the editorial board of The Washington Post.
She began working as a journalist in 1988, when she moved to Poland to become the Warsaw correspondent for the Economist. She eventually covered the collapse of communism across Central and Eastern Europe, writing for a wide range of newspapers and magazines.
Returning to London in 1992, she became the Foreign Editor, and later Deputy Editor, of the Spectator magazine. Following that, she wrote a weekly column on British politics and foreign affairs, which appeared at different times in the Daily Telegraph, the Sunday Telegraph, and the Evening Standard newspapers. She covered the 1997 British election campaign as the Evening Standard's political editor. For several years, she wrote the "Foreigners" column in Slate magazine.
Her first book, Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe, described a journey through Lithuania, Ukraine and Belarus, then on the verge of independence. Her second book, Gulag: A History, narrates the history of the Soviet concentration camp system and describes daily life in the camps. It makes extensive use of recently-opened Russian archives.
Over the years, her writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The International Herald Tribune, Foreign Affairs, The Boston Globe, The Independent, The Guardian, Commentaire, Suddeutsche Zeitung, Newsweek, The New Criterion, The Weekly Standard, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, The National Review, The New Statesman, The Times Literary Supplement and the Literary Review, among others. She has appeared as a guest and as a presenter on many radio and television programs, among them BBC's Newsnight, The Today Progamme, The Week in Westminster, as well as CNN, MSNBC, CBS and Sky News.
Anne Applebaum was born in Washington, D.C. in 1964. After graduating from Yale University, she was a Marshall Scholar at the London School of Economics and St. Antony's College, Oxford. In 1992 she won the Charles Douglas-Home Memorial Trust award for journalism in the ex-Soviet Union. Between East and West won an Adolph Bentinck prize for European non-fiction in 1996. Her husband, Radek Sikorski, is a Polish politician and writer. They have two children, Alexander and Tadeusz.
Author biography courtesy of Anne Applebaum's official web site.
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 magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, to its collapse in the era of glasnost. Applebaum intimately re-creates what life was like in the camps and links them to the larger history of the Soviet Union. Immediately recognized as a landmark and long-overdue work of scholarship, Gulag is an essential book for anyone who wishes to understand the history of the twentieth century.
Winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
Finalist for the 2003 National Book Award, Nonfiction.
我曾不止一次讲过三十年前的事:索尔仁尼琴著《古拉格群岛》中译本出版,内部发行,限副局级以上干部凭工作证购买。我所在的报社是局级单位,央求一位不很熟悉的领导同去东长安街的群众出版社读者服务部方才购得一套。当夜开读,时为严冬,感觉如冰水浇背,读完竟大病一...
评分大多数人是从索尔仁尼琴的回忆录中知道古拉格的,它是“劳改营管理总局”俄语首字母的缩写,泛指它管理下的劳改营。从1929到1953年,超过1400万人曾被囚禁在这里, “鼎盛”时期,476座集中营遍及苏联每个时区,戈尔巴乔夫就是一名古拉格囚犯的孙子。 进入古拉格不需要太复杂...
评分到2016年圣诞节,苏联解体已经过去25年了。在这个时代说起纳粹的集中营,几乎没有人会为之辩护。但是说到古拉格,你可以找到一堆奇谈怪论的说词。我觉得任何人谈到古拉格应该像谈到纳粹的集中营一样。马加丹,沃尔库塔,诺里尔斯克这样的名字应该与奥斯维辛,布痕瓦尔德...
评分古拉格是ГУЛАГ的音译,他们是俄文Главное Управление Исправительно-Трудовых Лагерей и колоний的首写字母缩写,这些俄文字词的意思,按照本书作者安妮•阿普尔鲍姆的解释就是:古拉格是苏联内务部的主管劳动改...
评分古拉格的发展可以大致分为以下阶段:列宁时代的古拉格有很强乌托邦幻想色彩并追求经济效益(虽然基本赔本),意图用一种劳动改造取代监狱,很讽刺的是富农可以利用资产获得非常优渥的住宿条件,而政治犯也被特别对待,劳动重负结果压倒了“犯罪”贫农(主要是偷窃,偷懒)身上。 斯...
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评分原书不用说了,经典。个人觉得,最前头的序章和最末尾的反思部分是精华,分别讨论两个问题:1. 西方为什么对纳粹(极右)的容忍度低,对苏联(极左)的容忍度高。2. 俄罗斯为什么很少公开反思和谴责苏联罪恶,甚至怀旧和粉饰(作者的一个答案是:因为当年的罪犯及其后人仍然掌权)
评分纳粹之恶,举世皆知,而与之不相伯仲的共产主义之恶,或说斯大林之恶,无论俄国人自己,还是西方,都还不情愿面对。作者力图表现列宁执政到苏东巨变这近七十年时间里,这个被缩称为“古拉格”的奴工体系,如何管理、折磨包括作奸犯科的罪犯,和以各种名义未经审判或刑讯逼供投入这个体系的所谓“政治犯”。政治犯们所受的折磨和最终无名地死亡,其惨已经无法用言语形容。作者耙梳史料、回忆录、公开文件,最终以史家般谨严的文字一桩桩描述出来,读来如入地狱。而读完以后,我简直如同脱胎换骨,看世界的眼光都不同了。
评分震撼的历史。没人翻译么,这么精彩的一本书……
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