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Nel 1929 la politica di collettivizzazione agricola forzata promossa da Stalin costrinse milioni di contadini russi a consegnare allo Stato bestiame, attrezzi e ogni scorta alimentare fino all'ultimo chicco di grano. È l'inizio di una catastrofica carestia, la più letale nella storia d'Europa, che causò, tra il 1931 e 1933, oltre 5 milioni di vittime, in gran parte nella Repubblica socialista sovietica di Ucraina, una d...

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man at the top. But in the 21st century, that cartoon bears little resemblance to reality. Nowadays, autocracies are run not by one bad guy, but by sophisticated networks composed of kleptocratic financial structures, security services and professional propagandists. The members of these networks are connected not only within a given country, but amo...

Ein brutales Vermächtnis der Sowjetunion: Die erschütternde Geschichte eines Menschheitsverbrechens, ausgezeichnet mit dem Pulitzer Preis Er zählt zu den dunkelsten Kapiteln der Geschichte der Sowjetunion: Der Gulag, jenes weit verzweigte, zentral gesteuerte und in seinem Umfang bis dahin beispiellose System zur Ausbeutung von Zwangsarbeit. Wie entwickelte er sich aus dem Chaos der Revolutionszeit? Welche Bedeutung hatten Zwangsarbeit und G...

From the Pulitzer-prize winning, New York Times bestselling author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them We think we know what an autocratic state looks like: There is an all-powerful leader at the top. He controls the police. The police threaten the people with violence. There are evil collaborators, and maybe some brave dissidents. But in the 21st ce...

Der von Barack Obama empfohlene Bestseller der Pulitzer-Preisträgerin Die Erschütterung der liberalen Demokratien wird oft mit der Schwäche der westlichen Werteordnung erklärt. Anne Applebaum wählt einen anderen Ansatz und fragt: Was macht die Rückkehr zu autoritären Herrschaftsformen für viele Menschen so erstrebenswert? An zahlreichen Beispielen - von den Brexiteers bis hin zu den illiberalen Demokratien Osteuropas - zeigt sie, welche Rol...

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Named a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by The Washington Post and The Financial Times "How did our democracy go wrong? This extraordinary document . . . is Applebaum's answer." -Timothy Snyder, author of On TyrannyA Pulitzer Prize-winning historian explains, with electrifying clarity, why elites in democracies around the world are turning toward nationalism and authoritarianism.From the United States and Britain to continental Europe and beyond, libera...

A FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'The most important non-fiction book of the year' David HareIn the years just before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, people from across the political spectrum in Europe and America celebrated a great achievement, felt a common purpose and, very often, forged personal friendships. Yet over the following decades the euphoria evaporated, the common purpose and centre groun...

Das neue Buch der Pulitzer-PreisträgerinDie Erschütterung der liberalen Demokratie überall auf der Welt wird gern mit der Schwäche der westlichen Werteordnung erklärt. Die Pulitzer-Preisträgerin Anne Applebaum geht dem Phänomen auf andere Weise auf den Grund. Sie fragt: Was macht für viele Menschen die Rückkehr zu autoritären, anti-demokratischen Herrschaftsformen so erstrebenswert? Was genau treibt all die Wähler, Unterstützer und Steigbügelh...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author, professor, and historian offers an expert guide to understanding the appeal of the strongman as a leader and an explanation for why authoritarianism is back with a menacing twenty-first century twist.Across the world today, from the Americas to Europe and beyond, liberal democracy is under siege while populism and nationalism are on the rise. In Twilight of Democracy, prize-winning historian Anne Applebaum of...

In the years just before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, conservative politicians and intellectuals across Europe and America celebrated a great achievement, felt a common purpose and, very often, forged personal friendships. The euphoria quickly evaporated, the common purpose and centre ground gradually disappeared and eventually - as this book compellingly relates - the relationships soured too.Anne Applebaum traces a familiar history...

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Die umfassende Darstellung eines der größten MenschheitsverbrechenDer gegenwärtige Konflikt um die Ostukraine und die Krim ist ohne diese historische Last nicht zu verstehen - der erzwungene Hungertod von mehr als drei Millionen Ukrainern 1932 und 1933, Holodomor genannt, war eine der größten Katastrophen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Und sie hat Folgen bis heute - Stalins "Krieg gegen die Ukraine" hat sich tief im kollektiven Bewusstsein der osteurop...

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. Ten behoeve van hen die het niet wilden weten, en ten behoeve van een nieuwe generatie, die het moet weten.

AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEARFrom the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtain, a revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes-the consequences of which still resonate todayIn 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 catastrop...

In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the twentieth century. With unprecedented authority and detail, Red Famine investigates how this happened, who was responsible, and what the consequences were. It is the fullest account yet published of these terrible events.The book draws on a mass of archival material and first...

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L'"arcipelago Gulag", l'ampia e fitta rete di campi di concentramento sovietici, è affiorato alla coscienza del mondo solo nel 1973, con la pubblicazione del romanzo autobiografico di Aleksandr Solzenicyn. Da allora, e in particolare dopo il crollo dell'Unione Sovietica, documenti a lungo tenuti nascosti hanno gettato nuova luce sul ruolo svolto dal gulag: oltra a essere lo strumento repressivo di ogni forma di opposizione politica e sociale, ...

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