“They Didn't Understand Anything, Just Spoiled People's Lives": Brutality, Incompetence and Historical Echoes in Russian-occupied Ukraine
Anne Applebaum is a journalist, a prize-winning historian, a staff writer for The Atlantic and a senior fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, where she co-leads a project on 21st century disinformation and co-teaches a course on democracy. Her books include Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine; Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956; and Gulag: A History, which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction. Her most recent book is the New York Times bestseller, Twilight of Democracy, an essay on democracy and authoritarianism. She was a Washington Post columnist for fifteen years and a member of the editorial board; she has also been the deputy editor of the Spectator and a columnist for several British newspapers. Her writing has appeared in the New York Review of Books, The New Republic, the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy, among many other publications.

The Lecture will be followed by a wine reception in the Old Library.
Date: 26 April 2023, 17:00 (Wednesday, 1st week, Trinity 2023)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: There will be a wine reception after the Lecture.
Speaker: Anne Applebaum
Organiser: Professor Cecile Fabre (Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College)
Organiser contact email address: cecile.fabre@all-souls.ox.ac.uk
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Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editor: Cecile Fabre