American journalist and historian who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag — the definitive history of the Soviet forced labor system — and Twilight of Democracy, a personal account of how friends became autocrats.
Gulag: A History: the most comprehensive history of the Soviet camp system — its geography, population, operations, and cultural legacy. Won the Pulitzer Prize in 2004. Twilight of Democracy: a personal account of how educated, Western-oriented people she knew became supporters of authoritarian populism — including her own husband's political milieu in Poland.
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