With relations between Russia and the West at their worst since the end of the Cold War, ILF Dublin brings together two leading writers to examine the geopolitical fault lines exposed by the crisis in Ukraine.
“[Iron Curtain is] exceptionally important, wise, perceptive, remarkably objective”
Antony Beevor
Historian and Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum is one of the world’s leading intellectuals and an acknowledged expert on the Soviet era. Her bestselling study Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2004 and her latest book, Iron Curtain, has been hailed as a masterpiece by reviewers.
“[Nothing is True and Everything is Possible is] a riveting portrait of the new Russia”
Tina Brown
Peter Pomerantsev spent many years working as a TV producer in Moscow and his book, Nothing is True and Everything is Possible, delivers a devastating (and strangely entertaining) critique of the Putin era. The event is chaired by Tony Connelly, Europe Editor for RTE News and Current Affairs.