Böcker av Timothy Snyder

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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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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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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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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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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Under Hitler and Stalin the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered fourteen million people in the bloodlands between Berlin and Moscow. The killing fields extended from central Polads to western Russia. For twelve savage years, on this bloodsoaked soil ...

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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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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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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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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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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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'Brilliant and disturbing' Yuval Noah HarariThe past is another country, the old saying goes. The same might be said of the future. But which country? For Europeans and Americans today, the answer is Russia.In this visionary work of contemporary h...

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'These 128 pages are a brief primer in every important thing we might have learned from the history of the last century, and all that we appear to have forgotten' Observer History does not repeat, but it does instruct...

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'Brilliant and disturbing' Yuval Noah Harari The past is another country, the old saying goes. The same might be said of the future. But which country? For Europeans and Americans today, the answer is Russia. In this visionary work of contemporary...

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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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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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'A brilliant and disturbing analysis, which should be read by anyone wishing to understand the political crisis currently engulfing the world' YUVAL NOAH HARARI, author of SAPIENS *SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE* The past i...

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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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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 u...

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From the bestselling author of On Tyranny, the definitive history of Hitler's and Stalin's wars against the civilians of Europe in World War TwoAmericans call the Second World War "e;The Good War."e;But before it even began, America's wart...

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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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Der Autor des Weltbestsellers Über Tyrannei schreibt die Chronik einer über uns hereinbrechenden politischen Katastrophe - der Aufstieg autoritärer Regime in Russland, Europa und den USA. Timothy Snyder zeigt in seinem furchtlosen Buch, wie Putins...

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'These 128 pages are a brief primer in every important thing we might have learned from the history of the last century, and all that we appear to have forgotten' ObserverHistory does not repeat, but it does instruct.I...

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Wir sind nicht klüger als die Menschen, die erlebt haben, wie überall in Europa die Demokratie unterging und Faschismus, Nationalsozialismus und Kommunismus kamen. Aber einen Vorteil haben wir. Wir können aus ihren Erfahrungen lernen. „Leist...

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Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Road to Unfreedom, written and read by Timothy Snyder. The past is another country, the old saying goes. The same might be said of the future. But which country? For Europeans and Americans today,...

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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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