Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps

Anne Applebaum (born July 25, 1964) is an American-Polish historian, journalist, and author specializing in the history of communism and authoritarianism. Anne Applebaum official site. Her notable works include Gulag: A History, which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944–1956, and Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, which earned the Lionel Gelber Prize and Duff Cooper Prize.