**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer-prize winning author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat themA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Economist, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, The Times"A masterful guide to the new age of authoritarianism... clear-sighted and fearless.”—John Simpson, The Guardian"Especially timely."—The Washington Post...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "How did our democracy go wrong? This extraordinary document ... is Applebaum's answer." —Timothy Snyder, author of On TyrannyThe 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, liberal democracy is under siege, while authoritarianism is on the rise. In

**PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • This magisterial and acclaimed history 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.“A tragic testimony to how evil ideologically inspired dictatorships can be.” —The New York Times**A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the CenturyThe Gulag—a vast array of Soviet concentrat...

***Premio de Periodismo de El Mundo y Premio Francisco Cerecedo de Periodismo 2021***Un análisis demoledor sobre el panorama político actual.El mejor libro del año según The Washington Post y The financial TimesLas democracias occidentales modernas están bajo asedio y el auge del autoritarismo es una cu...

A historiadora e vencedora do Prêmio Pulitzer explica, com clareza cruciante, por que as elites democráticas de todo o mundo estão se voltando para o nacionalismo e o autoritarismo. Eleito o Livro do Ano pelo The Washigton Post e pelo The Financial Times.Dos Estados Unidos e Grã-Bretanha à Europa continental, Ásia e América do Sul, as democracias liberais estão em risco, enquanto o autoritarismo está em ascensão. Em O crepúsculo da democracia, Anne Applebaum, ganhadora do Prêmio Pu...

In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway.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 t...

La famine meurtrière qui frappa l’Ukraine au début des années 30 reste un des chapitres les moins explorés de l’Histoire soviétique. Anne Applebaum répare enfin cette injustice par un livre qui fera date. Elle impressionne par la somme des connaissances rassemblées et commentées sur ce qui fut une véritable extermination de tout un peuple organisée par le Parti communiste soviétique sous Staline, mais aussi par son talent d’écrivain. Son récit des faits débute par l’histoire de la révoluti...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes, the consequences of which still resonate today, as Russia has placed Ukrainian independence in its sights once more—from the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtain."With searing clarity, Red Famine demonstrates the horrific consequences of a campaign to eradicate 'backwardness' when undertaken by a regime in...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "How did our democracy go wrong? This extraordinary document ... is Applebaum's answer." —Timothy Snyder, author of On TyrannyThe 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, liberal democracy is under siege, while authoritarianism is on the rise. In

*Premio de la Paz de los Libreros Alemanes 2024*«Una guía maestra para afrontar la nueva era del autoritarismo. Una clase magistral sobre la unión de un gobierno dudoso con el crimen internacional».The Guardian«La destacada periodista y estudiosa de las dictaduras se fija en Trump, Putin y muchos otros autócratas modernos. Esencial para cualquier debate en torno al totalitarismo moderno».

Een kraakheldere wake-upcall: we moeten nu weerstand bieden aan wereldwijd samenwerkende autocratieën.Wie denkt dat dictators alleen op hun eigen land gericht zijn, heeft het mis. Autocratieën als Rusland en China wisselen onderling kennis en middelen uit. Corrupte bedrijven in het ene land doen zaken met corrupte bedrijven in het andere land en het ene nationale politiekorps traint en bewapent het andere. Bovendien verkondigen de autocratische regimes dezelfde boo...

**Brought to you by Penguin.One of the world's most celebrated historians and journalists uncovers the networks trying to destroy the democratic world**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 serv...