Between East and West by Anne Applebaum
In 1991, Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag, Iron Curtain and Red Famine, took a three-month road trip through the borderlands between the fallen Soviet Union and Europe--lands that became Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania and Moldova. In her iconic reportage, which has become indispensable history, she captures the harrowing story of a region that is once again threatened by Russia.An extraordinary journey into the past and present of the lands east of Poland and west of Russia--an area defined throughout its history by colliding empires. Traveling from the former Soviet naval center of Kaliningrad on the Baltic to the Black Sea port of Odessa, Anne Applebaum encounters a rich range of competing cultures, religions, and national aspirations.
In reasserting their heritage, the inhabitants of the borderlands attempt to build a future grounded in their fractured ancestral legacies. In the process, neighbors unearth old conflicts, devote themselves to recovering lost culture, and piece together competing legends to create a new tradition. Rich in surprising encounters and vivid characters, Between East and West brilliantly illuminates the soul of the borderlands and the shaping power of the past.
Anne Applebaum is a Washington Post columnist and member of the editorial board. She has worked as the foreign and deputy editor of the Spectator (London), as the Warsaw correspondent for the Economist, and as a columnist for the online magazine Slate, as well as for various British publications. She is a Yale graduate and a Marshall Scholar. Her writing has also featured in a variety of periodicals, including the New York Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, and the Wall Street Journal. She and her husband, Radek Sikorski, live in Washington, D.C., with their two children.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780525433187 |
| ISBN 10 | 052543318X |
| Title | Between East and West |
| Author | Anne Applebaum |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2017-06-13 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
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