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==Early life and education==
Applebaum was born in [[Washington, D.C.]],<ref name="NYT1992"to />a [[Reform Judaism|reform Jewish]] family, the eldest of three daughters of Harvey M. and Elizabeth Applebaum.<ref name="NYT1992" /><ref>{{cite web|last=Lazareva|first=Inna|url=http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/through-a-communist-looking-glass-then-and-now.premium-1.491882 |title=Through a (communist) looking glass, then and now |website=Haaretz |date=January 4, 2013|access-date=December 11, 2021}}</ref> Her father, a Yale alumnus, is senior counsel at Covington & Burling's Antitrust and International Trade Practices. Her mother was a program coordinator at the [[Corcoran Gallery of Art]]. According to Applebaum, her great-grandparents immigrated to America during the reign of [[Alexander III of Russia]] from what is now [[Belarus]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.svaboda.org/a/29500489.html |title="Беларусі трэба нацыяналізм". Ляўрэатка "Пулітцэра" пра радзіму прадзедаў і выхад з тупіку гісторыі |language=be|newspaper=Радыё Свабода |date=September 23, 2018 |access-date=September 30, 2018|last1=Гурневіч |first1=Дзьмітры }}</ref>
Applebaum has stated that she was brought up in a "very [[Reform Judaism|reform]]" Jewish family.<ref>{{cite web|last=Lazareva|first=Inna|url=http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/through-a-communist-looking-glass-then-and-now.premium-1.491882 |title=Through a (communist) looking glass, then and now |website=Haaretz |date=January 4, 2013|access-date=December 11, 2021}}</ref> After attending the [[Sidwell Friends School]] in Washington, D.C., Applebaum entered [[Yale University]], where during the Fall 1982 semester she studied Soviet history under [[Wolfgang Leonhard]].<ref name="IC">{{cite book |last1=Applebaum |first1=Anne |title=Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944–1956 |date=2012 |publisher=Doubleday |location=New York USA |isbn=9780385515696 |page=282,508}}</ref> As an undergraduate, she spent the summer of 1985 in [[Leningrad]], Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia), an experience she credits with helping shape her opinions.<ref>{{Cite news|first=Applebaum|last=Anne|url=https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/russia-great-forgetting/|title=Russia and the Great Forgetting|work=[[Commentary (magazine)|Commentary]]|access-date=April 3, 2017}}</ref>
Applebaum received her BA from Yale in 1986 ''[[summa cum laude]]'' in history and literature,<ref>{{cite web|title=Anne Applebaum – internationales literaturfestival berlin|url=http://www.literaturfestival.com/archive/participants/authors/2014/anne-applebaum?set_language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170302031208/http://www.literaturfestival.com/archive/participants/authors/2014/anne-applebaum?set_language=en|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 2, 2017|access-date=April 3, 2017|website=Literaturfestival.com|language=de}}</ref><ref name="IC">{{cite book |last1=Applebaum |first1=Anne |title=Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944–1956 |date=2012 |publisher=Doubleday |location=New York USA |isbn=9780385515696 |page=282,508}}</ref> and was the recipient of a two-year [[Marshall Scholarship]] at the [[London School of Economics]], where she earned a master's degree in [[international relations]] (1987).<ref name="NYT_wdg">{{cite news|title=Anne E. Applebaum to Wed in June|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/08/style/anne-e-applebaum-to-wed-in-june.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=December 8, 1991
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