A conversation with Professor Anne Applebaum about her new book "Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine".
Monday, 29. April 2019, 19:00 – 20:00 h
At Literaturhaus Zurich, Limmatquai 62, 8001 Zürich
In her book ‘Red Famine’ (Doubleday 2017), Anne Applebaum depicts one of the greatest catastrophes of the twentieth century: the starvation that was forced upon more than three million Ukrainians in 1932 and 1933. She portrays Stalin’s regime of terror against the Ukraine, the circumstances of this policy of extermination, and at the same time gives a voice to the starving Ukrainians. ‘Anne Applebaum’s book is certain to become a standard work on one of humanity’s worst atrocities.’ (Timothy Snyder)
Anne Applebaum, born in 1964, is a historian and journalist. A Pulitzer Prize winner, she began her career in 1988 as a correspondent for The Economist in Warsaw, from where she covered the collapse of communism, and is one of the most accomplished connoisseurs of Russia. Today she is a staff writer for The Atlantic as well as a Senior Fellow at the Agora Institute, Johns Hopkins University. She has received numerous awards for her journalistic work, most recently the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade 2024.