Böcker av Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder var övertygad om att USA inte kunde annat än välja Hillary Clinton till president. När resultatet blev Donald Trump skrev han denna stridsskrift om vad historien har att lära oss om liknande situationer. Dagens politik skapar nya ho...

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Timothy Snyder var övertygad om att USA inte kunde annat än välja Hillary Clinton till president. När resultatet blev Donald Trump skrev han denna stridsskrift om vad historien har att lära oss om liknande situationer. Dagens politik skapar nya ho...

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The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europe...

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När det Kalla kriget tog slut verkade den liberala demokratin ha segrat. Olika samhällsanalytiker deklarerade slutet på historien ("end of history") och konstaterade med stort självförtroende att vi skulle gå mot en fredlig och globalise...

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From the author of On Tyranny comes a stunning new chronicle of the rise of authoritarianism from Russia to Europe and America. With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy seemed final. Observers declared the end of history, con...

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**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** A sort of survival book, a sort of symptom-diagnosis manual in terms of losing your democracy and what tyranny and authoritarianism look like up close Rachel Maddow 'These 128 pages are a brief primer in every importa...

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När det Kalla kriget tog slut verkade den liberala demokratin ha segrat. Olika samhällsanalytiker deklarerade slutet på historien ("end of history") och konstaterade med stort självförtroende att vi skulle gå mot en fredlig och globaliserad framti...

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I denna storslagna berättelse ger Timothy Snyder en ny bild av Förintelsen. Den svarta jorden knyter 1900-talets stora tragedi till samtiden och ser massmordet på judarna som något som fortfarande ligger mycket nära. Hitlers idé var att utrotninge...

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Timothy Snyder var övertygad om att USA inte kunde annat än välja Hillary Clinton till president. När resultatet blev Donald Trump skrev han denna stridsskrift om vad historien har att lära oss om liknande situationer. Dagens politik skapar nya ho...

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**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** 'A sort of survival book, a sort of symptom-diagnosis manual in terms of losing your democracy and what tyranny and authoritarianism look like up close' Rachel Maddow 'These 128 pages are a brief primer in every impor...

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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE We have come to see the Holocaust as a factory of death, organised by bureaucrats. Yet by the time the gas chambers became operation more than a million European Jews were already dead: shot at close ra...

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With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy was thought to be absolute. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. But we now know this to be premature. Authoritarianism first returned in ...

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A wake-up call that aims to restore our understanding of the basis of our way of life, from the author of international bestseller On Tyranny. One of the best brisk, conceptually convincing account of democracy s retreat in the early years of 21st...

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Two explorers set out on a journey from which only one of them will return. Their unknown land is that often fearsome continent we call the 20th Century. Their route is through their own minds and memories. Both travellers are professional histori...

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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,...

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Wilhelm von Habsburg wore the uniform of an Austrian officer, the court regalia of a Habsburg archduke, the simple suit of a Parisian exile, the decorations of the Order of the Golden Fleece and, every so often, a dress. He spoke the Italian of hi...

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Modern nationalism in northeastern Europe has often led to violence and then reconciliation between nations with bloody pasts. In this fascinating book, Timothy Snyder traces the emergence of Polish, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, and Belarusian nationhoo...

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From the author of On Tyranny comes a stunning new chronicle of the rise of authoritarianism from Russia to Europe and America. With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy seemed final. Observers declared the end of history, con...

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A wake-up call that aims to restore our understanding of the basis of our way of life, from the author of international bestseller On Tyranny. 'One of the best...brisk, conceptually convincing account of democracy's retreat in the early years of 2...

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Americans call the Second World War The Good War." But before it even began, America's wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens,and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was finally defeated, he ha...

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A landmark work of contemporary history - and a wake-up call - from the author of international bestseller ON TYRANNY. America's claim to have won the cold war in 1989 brought with it the arrogant and mistaken declaration that history had come to ...

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This collection of essays places the Balkans at the center of European developments, not as a conflict-ridden problem zone, but rather as a full-fledged European region. Contrary to the commonly held perception, contributors to the volume argue, t...

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A study of one of the most important Polish thinkers, an intellectual who framed understandings of modern nationalism and socialism.

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A study of one of the most important Polish thinkers, an intellectual who framed understandings of modern nationalism and socialism.

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Timothy Snyder opens a new path in the understanding of modern nationalism and twentieth-century socialism by presenting the often overlooked life of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, an important Polish thinker at the beginning of the twentieth century. Du...

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Timothy Snyder opens a new path in the understanding of modern nationalism and twentieth-century socialism by presenting the often overlooked life of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, an important Polish thinker at the beginning of the twentieth century. Du...

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The Soviet Union was the largest state in the twentieth-century world, but its repressive power and terrible ambition were most clearly on display in Europe. Under the leadership of Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union transformed itself and then all o...

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A volume of original essays that reassesses the Soviet Union's impact on Europe, before, during, and after World War II.

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The Soviet Union was the largest state in the twentieth-century world, but its repressive power and terrible ambition were most clearly on display in Europe. Under the leadership of Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union transformed itself and then all o...

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A volume of original essays that reassesses the Soviet Union's impact on Europe, before, during, and after World War II.

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