All articles from Anne Applebaum
Letter from Salzburg
In 1920, a year of hunger and hardship, a group of Austrians decided to start a music festival. World War I had just ended. The Habsburg empire had just disappeared, putting to an end a society that the writer Stefan Zweig once described as a "stabilized bourgeois world with its countless little se
How to end the war in Ukraine
Next week, maybe, there might be a meeting between President Putin and President Trump. Once again, many people are speculating about the end of the war, what it would take for both sides to stop fighting. As it happens, this was the subject of a conversation I had a few weeks ago with a Russian jou
The War About Nothing
After the US election last November, I changed my plans.For many years, I had been writing about America, Europe, Russia and Ukraine, describing and analyzing the breakdown of international norms, the spread of authoritarian propaganda, deliberate attempts to create refugees and violence. I knew tha