New Releases by Anne Applebaum

本书作者第一次对古拉格----一个大批关押了成百上千政治犯和刑事犯的集中营----进行了完全纪实性的描述,再现了劳改营生活的本质.

Etter andre verdenskrig spredte kommunismen seg for fullt i Øst-Europa. I denne boken skildrer Anne Applebaum hvordan regimene ble bygget opp, og hvordan hverdagslivet artet seg i disse landene. Forfatteren har brukt dokumenter fra nyåpnede østeuropeiske arkiver, intervjuer og personlige beretninger i arbeidet med boken. Ved hjelp av disse gjengir hun historiene til noen av dem som forsøkte å tilpasse seg et diktatorisk styresett som holdt dem i sitt jerngrep. Anne Applebaum har tidligere skrevet boken Gulag om de kommunistiske straffeleirene i det gamle Sovjetunionen.

In making her new home in Poland in 1989, Applebaum had to cook with ingredients that were local, fresh, and available. She learned how to make food that was, if not exactly traditional, in the Polish spirit. The national rebirth of Poland in the last two decades has meant the rebirth of its cuisine, and the authors have modernized many of its dishes, without losing any of the centuries-old flavors. Collects ninety Polish recipes, including roasted winter vegetables, stewed beef rolls with kasha, pork loin stuffed with prunes, and fruit pierogi.

In the long-awaited National Book Award—shortlisted follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize—winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Central Europe after WWII and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway. At the end of WWII, the Soviet Union, to its surprise and delight, found itself in control of a huge swath of territory in Central Europe. It set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to a completely new political and moral system: Communism. Iron Curtain describes how the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe were created, and what daily life was like once they were completed. Applebaum draws on newly opened European archives and personal accounts translated for the first time to portray in devastating detail millions of individuals trying to adjust to a way of life that challenged their every belief, rendered worthless their every qualification, and took away everything they had accumulated. Today the Soviet Bloc is a lost civilization, one whose cruelty, paranoia, bizarre morality and strange aethestics Applebaum captures in the electrifying pages of this book.

Van 1929 tot Stalins dood in 1953 werden zon achttien miljoen dwangarbeiders tot de werkkampen van de Goelag veroordeeld. Naar schatting vierenhalf miljoen van hen keerden nooit terug. Na de val van het IJzeren Gordijn zijn in Rusland talloze documenten toegankelijk geworden: egodocumenten, ambtelijke archieven, gevangenisdossiers, persoonlijke getuigenissen. Applebaum heeft jarenlang onderzoek verricht en heeft met Goelag hét standaardwerk over deze zwarte bladzijde uit de Europese geschiedenis geschreven. Eigenlijk is er geen enkel modern boek over de Goelag dat de hele periode van het Sovjetregime omvat. In die leemte voorziet het boek van Applebaum. Een toegankelijk boek, waarin de belangrijkste kennis over een verschrikkelijke periode is samengevat. Trouw Applebaums boek is een historische gebeurtenis van het grootste gewicht. de Volkskrant

This landmark book uncovers in detail one of the greatest horrors of the 20th century: the vast system of Soviet camps that were responsible for the deaths of countless millions.