#  Petryshyn Memorial Lecture: Anne Applebaum 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **March 29, 2023** 

 05:15PM - 07:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Room S-020 (Belfer Case Study Room), CGIS-South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA**  



 

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## "They Didn't Understand Anything, Just Spoiled People's Lives": Brutality, Incompetence, and Historical Echoes in Russian-occupied Ukraine 

**Anne Applebaum**, staff writer, *The Atlantic*; Senior Fellow, SNF Agora Institute, Johns Hopkins University

***In Person and Online***

Note: This event will be streamed only via Zoom. A recording will be made available on YouTube at a later date.

 ![Anne Applebaum poster with background of destroyed building](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/huri/files/applebaum_poster2.jpg)

 

## About the Speaker

   ![Anne Applebaum](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/huri/files/anne_applebaum_250.jpg?itok=mPkxLFIy) 

 

**Anne Applebaum** is a journalist, a prize-winning historian, a staff writer for *The Atlantic*, and a senior fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, where she co-leads a project on 21st century disinformation and co-teaches a course on democracy. Her books include *Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine*; *Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956*; and *Gulag: A History*, which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction. Her most recent book is the *New York Times* bestseller, *Twilight of Democracy*, an essay on democracy and authoritarianism. She was a *Washington Post* columnist for fifteen years and a member of the editorial board; she has also been the deputy editor of the *Spectator* and a columnist for several British newspapers. Her writing has appeared in the *New York Review of Books*, *The New Republic*, the *Wall Street Journal*, *Foreign Affairs*, and *Foreign Policy*, among many other publications.

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The [Petryshyn Memorial Lecture](https://huri.harvard.edu/petryshyn-memorial-lecture) is given annually by a distinguished scholar with national or international reputation in the field of Ukrainian studies. The lecture is supported by a fund donated by the estate of the late Vasyl and Maria Petryshyn, as well as their son Dr. Wolodymyr Petryshyn and other family members.



 

 



 

 See also:- [ Petryshyn Memorial Lecture ](/event-type/petryshyn-memorial-lecture)
- [ Contemporary Ukraine ](/fields-expertise/contemporary-ukraine)
- [ Russia-Ukraine War ](/fields-expertise/russia-ukraine-war)
 
 

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