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Diary of a CEO · 2026-05-11

Pulitzer Historian: The Next Stage Is Collapse (And You Are Ignoring The Signs)

Pulitzer Historian: The Next Stage Is Collapse (And You Are Ignoring The Signs)

The guest's own work

BookBy the guest

Gulag: A History

Anne Applebaum

“if you're looking at my books, you know, I wrote three history books. I wrote the Gulag book.”— Anne Applebaum
BookBy the guest

Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine

Anne Applebaum

“I wrote a history of the Ukrainian famine. I wrote a book this is this is a book about how the Soviet Union took over Eastern Europe.”— Anne Applebaum
BookBy the guestISBN verified

Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe

Anne Applebaum

“So that book Iron Curtain is about it. I've written a lot about Ukraine and what happened when the Russians occupied eastern Ukraine.”— Anne Applebaum
BookBy the guestISBN verified

Twilight of Democracy

Anne Applebaum

“that book Twilight of Democracy was a description I mean it starts with a description of a party I gave and then the book is about how people I knew had changed.”— Anne Applebaum

Also referenced (named, not recommended)

BookReferencedISBN verified

The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival

Sir John Glubb

“this 2000 250 year figure which is famously popularized by a British historian called Sir John Gub in his essay the fate of empires and the search for survival”— Steven Bartlett
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The End of History and the Last Man

Francis Fukuyama

“if Frank Fukiyama actually had in his famous book about the end of history, he had a description of well, what happens if we have two”— Anne Applebaum