Pulitzer prize-winner delivers lecture
30 January 2009
Applebaum delivers lecture entitled ‘Hitler and Stalin: The 20th century’s cruellest tyrants?’
Pulitzer prize-winning author Anne Applebaum delivered the first in the 12th series of LJMU's popular Roscoe Lectures. 
Entitled ‘Hitler and Stalin: The 20th century’s cruellest tyrants?’ Applebaum's lecture outlined the circumstances in which both dictators gained power.
Unwilling to make comparisons between the two tyrants by way of quanitfying the number of people they massacred, Applebaum explained that she feels there is more to gain from anaylsing the reasons why their ideologies became widely accepted by the general public.
Applebaum has written extensively about communism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe. Her first book, ‘Between East and West’ was awarded an Adolph Bentinck prize in 1996 and her second book, ‘Gulag: A History’ was awarded the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction writing. She is now a columnist and member of the Editorial Board for the Washington Post and has worked for The Economist and the London Evening Standard.
Click here to download an audio file of the lecture.
