Anne Applebaum

Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 45 mins)
• By Anne Applebaum
• Narrated By Suzanne Toren
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In 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization - in effect a second Russian Revolution - which forced millions of peasants off their land and onto collective farms. The result was a catastrophic famine, the most lethal in European history. At least five million people died between 1931 and 1933 in the USSR. But instead of sending relief, the Soviet state made use of the catastrophe to rid itself of a political problem.

Gulag: A History

• UNABRIDGED (27 hrs and 45 mins)
• By Anne Applebaum
• Narrated By Laural Merlington

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.

Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956

• UNABRIDGED (26 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Anne Applebaum
• Narrated By Cassandra Campbell

At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union to its surprise and delight found itself in control of a huge swath of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to Communism, a completely new political and moral system. In Iron Curtain, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Applebaum describes how the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe were created and what daily life was like once they were complete.

Obama and Europe

• UNABRIDGED (25 mins)
• By Anne Applebaum
• Narrated By Kevin Stillwell

Even now, gazing back through the jaundiced lens of subsequent experience, Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign speech in Berlin still seems an extraordinary occasion.

In Poland, a Preview of What Trump Could Do to America

• UNABRIDGED (6 mins)
• By Anne Applebaum
• Narrated By Sam Scholl

It’s important to acknowledge when you’ve been wrong, and I’ve probably never been so wrong as I was in an op-ed published on April 13, 2010. At the time, I was stunned by a terrible tragedy: the crash of a plane that had carried the Polish president, Lech Kaczynski.

Is America Still the Leader of the Free World?

• UNABRIDGED (5 mins)
• By Anne Applebaum
• Narrated By Jenny Hoops

For the United States and for Europe, the moment of reckoning has now arrived: The West as we know it is nearing the end of its life. The United States of America has just elected as president a man who not only brags about groping women and swindles his business partners but who also openly dislikes America’s traditional allies—and Europeans most of all.

‘What Happens to Us?’ Why Sweden Is So Worried About the Trump Administration.

• UNABRIDGED (3 mins)
• By Anne Applebaum
• Narrated By Sam Scholl

It’s not party politics that bother them: These are conservatives, by Swedish standards, and Republican presidents have suited them in the past. Trump’s tweeting and bragging don’t bother them that much either, though they find it unseemly. The real problem is deeper: Sweden’s economic and political model depends on Pax Americana, the set of American-written and American-backed rules that have governed transatlantic commerce and politics for 70 years — and they fear Trump will bring Pax Americana crashing down.

"‘What Happens to Us?’ Why Sweden Is So Worried About the Trump Administration." is from the February 08, 2017 Opinion section of The Washington Post. It was written by Anne Applebaum and narrated by Sam Scholl.

All the Worst Lies About Brexit Are About to Be Revealed

• UNABRIDGED (4 mins)
• By Anne Applebaum
• Narrated By Sam Scholl

It is a rare opportunity. Seldom does the voting public have the chance to watch their elected politicians confront very specific false promises in real time.

"All the Worst Lies About Brexit Are About to Be Revealed" is from the September 08, 2017 Opinion section of The Washington Post. It was written by Anne Applebaum and narrated by Sam Scholl.

How Russia Could Spark a U.S. Electoral Disaster

• UNABRIDGED (4 mins)
• By Anne Applebaum
• Narrated By Sam Scholl

"How Russia Could Spark a U.S. Electoral Disaster" is from the September 08, 2016 Opinion section of The Washington Post. It was written by Anne Applebaum and narrated by Sam Scholl.

Britain's Decision to Leave the EU Is a Warning to America

• UNABRIDGED (4 mins)
• By Anne Applebaum
• Narrated By Jenny Hoops

"Britain's Decision to Leave the EU Is a Warning to America" is from the June 24, 2016 Opinion section of The Washington Post. It was written by Anne Applebaum and narrated by Jenny Hoops.

Brexit Referendum Transcends the Economy

• UNABRIDGED (4 mins)
• By Anne Applebaum
• Narrated By Sam Scholl

"Brexit Referendum Transcends the Economy" is from the June 21, 2016 Opinion section of The Washington Post. It was written by Anne Applebaum and narrated by Sam Scholl.

Putin’s Power Plays

• UNABRIDGED (4 mins)
• By Anne Applebaum
• Narrated By Sam Scholl

"Putin’s Power Plays" is from the September 29, 2015 Ideas and Controversy section of The Washington Post. It was written by Anne Applebaum and narrated by Sam Scholl.

CatoAudio, December 2003

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 4 mins)
• By Stephen Moore, Anne Applebaum, Bradley A. Smith, and others
• Narrated By Bill McGregor

This edition of CatoAudio features Stephen Moore on lessons of the California recall; Bradley A. Smith on campaign finance reform; David Schoenbrod on congressional accountability for federal regulations; Dr. Thomas Szasz on the statist roots of psychiatry; Mario Vargas Llosa on the need for a culture of liberty in Latin America; and Anne Applebaum on the history of the Soviet gulag.

The New Yorker, January 6th 2013 (Nicholas Lemann, Anne Applebaum, John Cassidy)

• HIGHLIGHTS (1 hr and 56 mins)
• By Nicholas Lemann, Anne Applebaum, John Cassidy
• Narrated By Dan Bernard, Christine Marshall

"Two Ships", by Adam Gopnik; "A Mission Gone Wrong", by Mattathias Schwartz; "The Impossible Body", by Jonah Weiner; and "Home Truths", by David Denby.