Red Famine: talk with Anne Applebaum

Anne Applebaum is a columnist for the Washington Post. She is the author of several books, including Gulag: A History, which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction, and Iron Curtain, which won the 2013 Cundill Prize for Historical Literature. Since 1989, her writing has frequently focused on the politics of post-communist transition in Russia and Europe, but she also writes extensively about British, American, and European politics. Anne is a former member of the Washington Post editorial board, a former deputy editor of the Spectator magazine, and a former Warsaw correspondent of The Economist. She has been a visiting professor at the London School of Economics and has lectured at many other universities, including Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Zurich, and Heidelberg.

Edward Lucas is a senior editor at The Economist, the world’s foremost newsweekly. His expertise includes energy, cyber-security, espionage, Russian foreign and security policy, and the politics and economics of Eastern Europe. He is also a senior vice-president at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). In 2008 he wrote The New Cold War, a prescient account of Vladimir Putin’s Russia. In 2011 he wrote Deception, an investigative account of east-west espionage. An experienced broadcaster, public speaker, moderator, and panelist, Edward Lucas has given public lectures at Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, and other leading universities. He is a regular contributor to the BBC’s Today and Newsnight programmes, and to NPR, CNN, and Sky News. He is regularly cited by Foreign Policy magazine as one of the top 100 Twitterati.