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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

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First published: 2017
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Timothy Snyder draws lessons from the collapse of European democracies to consider how tyranny advances and how citizens might resist it. This political essay connects twentieth-century history with the concerns that shaped the American constitutional system. Its argument treats democratic institutions as vulnerable and historical experience as a resource for recognizing threats to public life.

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Timothy D. Snyder

Snyder is a Yale historian of Central and Eastern Europe who works in a great many of its languages. Bloodlands counted the fourteen million civilians killed by the German and Soviet regimes in the same stretch of territory between 1933 and 1945, and insisted the two be studied together; historians who disagreed said that framing softens what was specific ab...

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