Summary
Anne Applebaum: Twilight of Democracy
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"Twilight of Democracy" is her last book. In it, he shows what dangers threaten democratic societies and states from populist, demagogic movements that appear in different countries. Anna Applebaum's historical experience and knowledge of contemporary Europe and the United States allows her to detect the eternal and special when it comes to political dangers today. Twilight of Democracy offers many insights into the long struggle between democracies and dictatorships. But perhaps the most important thing is that the book points out how fragile democracy is, how much it depends on the daily decisions of both elites and ordinary people. In this book, she focused on a big issue that is intensively dealt with in both Europe and America, which is the issue of where democracy has gone the wrong way. This unique document, written with a lot of energy, wit and understanding, is her answer. It is a sobering, shocking account of the growth of authoritarianism in the West.
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