Bloodlands

THE book to help you understand today’s Eastern Europe

AvTimothy Snyder

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Engelska, 2011

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'A superb work of scholarship, full of riveting detail' Sunday TimesA powerful and revelatory history book about the bloodlands - the lands that lie between Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany - where 14 million people were killed during the years 1933 - 1944.In the middle of Europe, in the middle of the twentieth century, the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered fourteen million people in the bloodlands between Berlin and Moscow. In a twelve-year-period, in these killing fields - today's Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Western Russia and the eastern Baltic coast - an average of more than one million citizens were slaughtered every year, due to deliberate policies unrelated to combat.Here, Timothy Snyder offers a ground-breaking investigation into the motives and methods of Stalin and Hitler. Using scholarly literature and primary sources, he pays special attention to the testimony of the victims, including the letters home, the notes flung from trains, the diaries on corpses. Bloodlands is a brilliantly researched, profoundly humane, authoritative and original book that forces us to re-examine one of the greatest tragedies in European history and re-think our past.'An original, wonderful and horrifying book... beautifully written and superbly researched' Anthony Beevor

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2011-08-31
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781407075501
Förlag:Vintage Publishing

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Timothy Snyder has been called ‘the leading interpreter of our dark times’. As a historian, he has given us startling reinterpretations of political collapse and mass killing. As a public intellectual, he has turned that knowledge towards counsel and prediction, working against authoritarians and populists. After a quarter century at Yale, he now teaches history at the Munk School in the University of Toronto and his books, which have been published in over forty languages, include Bloodlands, Black Earth, On Tyranny, Road to Unfreedom, Our Malady and On Freedom. His work has inspired poster campaigns and exhibitions, sculptures, a punk rock song, a rap song, a play and an opera, and he has appeared in over fifty films and documentaries.

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"A remarkable study about suffering on an astonishing scale in Eastern and Central Europe in the 1920s, 1930s and during the Second World War" -- Peter Frankopan History Today "A superb work of scholarship, full of revealing detail... Snyder does justice to the horror of his subject through the power of his storytelling" Sunday Times "Superb and harrowing history" Financial Times, Books of the Year "An original, wonderful and horrifying book...this beautifully written and superbly researched work is undoubtedly one of the most important to emerge for a long time" -- Anthony Beevor "An excellent, authoritative and imaginative book, which tells the grim story of the greatest human and demographic tragedy in European history with exemplary clarity. Snyder set out to give a human face to the many millions of victims of totalitarianism. He has succeeded admirably" -- Roger Moorhouse BBC History Magazine

Innehållsförteckning

i: Preface: Europe INTRODUCTION: HITLER AND STALIN 1: THE SOVIET FAMINES 2: CLASS TERROR 3: NATIONAL TERROR 4: MOLOTOV-RIBBENTROP EUROPE 5: THE ECONOMICS OF APOCALYPSE 6: FINAL SOLUTION 7: HOLOCAUST AND REVENGE 8: THE NAZI DEATH FACTORIES 9: RESISTANCE AND INCINERATION 10: ETHNIC CLEANSINGS 11: STALINIST ANTI-SEMITISM CONCLUSION: HUMANITY ii: Numbers and Terms iii: Abstract iv: Acknowledgments v: Bibliography vi: Notes vii: Index