In 1991 Anne Applebaum Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag Iron Curtain and Red Famine took a three-month road trip through the borderlands between the fallen Soviet Union and Europe—lands that became Ukraine Belarus Lithuania and Moldova. In her iconic reportage which has become indispensable history she captures the harrowing story of a region that is once again threatened by Russia.. . . . . An extraordinary journey into the past and present of the lands east of Poland and west of Russia—a