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Autocracy, Inc

The Dictators Who Want to Run the World

by Anne Applebaum

Publication: First published 2024
ISBN: 9781802062137, 9780385549936, 9798217014323

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Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction
2025

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Orwell Prize for Political Writing
2025

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