Anne Applebaum is an expert in social, economic and political transitions. More specifically she has dedicated her life's work to researching commenting on communism.
In 1991 Anne Applebaum made a journey from the Baltic to the Black Sea, across Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine just as the soviet union was about to collapse. She chronicles her journey and experiences in her first book, Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe. What she found was a region of changing and shifting national identities. She focuses on the "borderlands" of Europe, regions where cultures overlap, where individuals have mixed identities. Applebaum writes about what is means to live on such a border and the negative implications that it has caused the people of these regions throughout history.
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