Timothy Snyder

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A graphic edition of historian Timothy Snyder's lessons for surviving and resisting America's arc toward authoritarianism, featuring the visual storytelling talents of renowned illustrator Nora Krug "Nora Krug has visualized and rendered some of the most valuable lessons of the twentieth century, which will serve all citizens as we shape the future."--Shepard Fairey, artist and activist Timothy Snyder's New York Times bestseller On Tyranny uses the darkest moments in twentieth-century history, from Nazism to Communism, to teach twenty lessons on resisting modern-day authoritarianism. Among the twenty include a warning to be aware of how symbols used today could affect tomorrow ("4: Take responsibility for the face of the world"), an urgent reminder to research everything for yourself and to the fullest extent ("11: Investigate"), a point to use personalized and individualized speech rather than clich d phrases for the sake of mass appeal ("9: Be kind to our language"), and more. In this graphic edition, Nora Krug draws from her highly inventive art style in Belonging--at once a graphic memoir, collage-style scrapbook, historical narrative, and trove of memories--to breathe new life, color, and power into Snyder's riveting historical references, turning a quick-read pocket guide of lessons into a visually striking rumination. In a time of great uncertainty and instability, this edition of On Tyranny emphasizes the importance of being active, conscious, and deliberate participants in resistance.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A graphic edition of historian Timothy Snyder's lessons for surviving and resisting America's arc toward authoritarianism, featuring the visual storytelling talents of renowned illustrator Nora Krug "Nora Krug has visualized and rendered some of the most valuable lessons of the twentieth century, which will serve all citizens as we shape the future."--Shepard Fairey, artist and activist Timothy Snyder's New York Times bestseller On Tyranny uses the darkest moments in twentieth-century history, from Nazism to Communism, to teach twenty lessons on resisting modern-day authoritarianism. Among the twenty include a warning to be aware of how symbols used today could affect tomorrow ("4: Take responsibility for the face of the world"), an urgent reminder to research everything for yourself and to the fullest extent ("11: Investigate"), a point to use personalized and individualized speech rather than clich d phrases for the sake of mass appeal ("9: Be kind to our language"), and more. In this graphic edition, Nora Krug draws from her highly inventive art style in Belonging--at once a graphic memoir, collage-style scrapbook, historical narrative, and trove of memories--to breathe new life, color, and power into Snyder's riveting historical references, turning a quick-read pocket guide of lessons into a visually striking rumination. In a time of great uncertainty and instability, this edition of On Tyranny emphasizes the importance of being active, conscious, and deliberate participants in resistance.

#1 New York Times Bestseller - A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism. 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 Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. On Tyranny is a call to arms and a guide to resistance, with invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come. Mr. Snyder is a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present. --The New York Times

Ukrainian dissident Myroslav Marynovych recounts his involvement in the Brezhnev-era human rights movement in the Soviet Union and his resulting years as a political prisoner in Siberia and in internal exile. This memoir by a prominent Ukrainian dissident, now in English translation, offers a unique account that spans the entire postwar period, from the author's childhood in newly Soviet western Ukraine and coming of age within the Communist system to the collapse of the Soviet Union, concluding with his reflections on culpability and justice in the post-Soviet context. Marynovych's description of the varied landscape of Ukrainian dissent in the 1960s and 1970s focuses on the emerging human rights movement, especially the creation of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, of which he was a founding member. He vividly recounts his encounters with the Soviet repressive apparatus, including his arrest and trial, and offers a rich picture of daily life in a Siberian prison camp and his internal exile in Kazakhstan. Imbued with the author's deep Christian convictions, this memoir sheds light on the key role faith played for some participants in the Soviet human rights movement, a movement that has most often been seen as having a secular inflection. It also provides a fresh look at the complex place of Ukrainian dissidents within the broader Soviet human rights movement, as well as the interplay between human rights advocates and other dissident groups in Soviet Ukraine.

L'Amerique est censee incarner la liberte. Pourtant, la maladie et la peur nous ont rendus moins libres. Etre libre, c'est devenir soi-meme, se deplacer dans le monde en suivant ses valeurs et ses desirs. Chacun d'entre nous possede un droit au bonheur et a laisser une trace. La liberte s'arrete lorsque nous sommes trop malades pour envisager le bonheur et trop faibles pour nous lancer a sa poursuite. Le mot liberte devient hypocrite quand il est prononce par ceux-la memes qui creent les conditions de notre maladie et de notre impuissance. Des lors que notre gouvernement federal et notre medecine commerciale ruinent notre sante, ils nous otent la liberte.

Under the Soviet regime, millions of zeks (prisoners) were incarcerated in the forced labor camps, the Gulag. There many died of starvation, disease, and exhaustion, and some were killed by criminals and camp guards. In 1939, as the Nazis and Soviets invaded Poland, many Polish citizens found themselves swept up by the Soviet occupation and sent into the Gulag. One such victim was Julius Margolin, a Pinsk-born Jewish philosopher and writer living in Palestine who was in Poland on family matters. Margolin's Journey into the Land of the Zeks and Back offers a powerful, first-person account of one of the most shocking chapters of the violent twentieth century. Opening with the outbreak of World War II in Poland, Margolin relates its devastating impact on the Jews and his arrest and imprisonment in the Gulag system. During his incarceration from 1940 to 1945, he nearly died from starvation and overwork but was able to return to Western Europe and rejoin his family in Palestine. With a philosopher's astute analysis of man and society, as well as with humor, his memoir of flight, entrapment, and survival details the choices and dilemmas faced by an individual under extreme duress. Margolin's moving account illuminates universal issues of human rights under a totalitarian regime and ultimately the triumph of human dignity and decency. This translation by Stefani Hoffman is the first English-language edition of this classic work, originally written in Russian in 1947 and published in an abridged French version in 1949. Circulated in a Russian samizdat version in the USSR, it exerted considerable influence on the formation of the genre of Gulag memoirs and was eagerly read by Soviet dissidents. Timothy Snyder's foreword and Katherine Jolluck's introduction contextualize the creation of this remarkable account of a Jewish world ravaged in the Stalinist empire--and the life of the man who was determined to reveal the horrors of the gulag camps and the plight of the zeks to the world.

ENLIGT DEN AMERIKANSKA drömmen kan varje människa bli sin egen lyckas smed. Men hur ska man kunna förverkliga sig själv om man inte har hälsan? Den frågan ställer sig historikern Timothy Snyder i en rasande uppgörelse med synen på omsorg, individualism och solidaritet. Utifrån sina egna, skrämmande upplevelser av sjukdom blottlägger han här hur frihet och hälsa är ovillkorligt sammanflätade med varandra. Bara genom att förstå hälsa som en mänsklig rättighet, och låta den medicinska expertisen leda vägen framåt, kan vi skapa ett samhälle som ger lika möjligheter för alla.*TIMOTHY SNYDER (f. 1969) har hyllats som en av de viktigaste tänkarna i populismens och postsanningens tidevarv. Han fick sitt stora internationella genombrott med böckerna Den blodiga jorden och Om tyranni. Hans skarpa blick på historien och samtiden har haft stor inverkan på det moderna samhällets självförståelse. Snyder är professor i historia vid Yale University och har bland annat tilldelats Hannah Arendt-priset och American Academy of Arts and Letters litteraturpris.

A virus is not human, but the reaction to it is a measure of humanity. As he clung to life he found himself reflecting on the fragility of health, not recognized in America as a human right, but without which all rights and freedoms have no meaning.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Tyranny comes an impassioned condemnation of America's pandemic response and an urgent call to rethink health and freedom. On December 29, 2019, historian Timothy Snyder fell gravely ill. Unable to stand, barely able to think, he waited for hours in an emergency room before being correctly diagnosed and rushed into surgery. Over the next few days, as he clung to life and the first light of a new year came through his window, he found himself reflecting on the fragility of health, not recognized in America as a human right but without which all rights and freedoms have no meaning. And that was before the pandemic. We have since watched American hospitals, long understaffed and undersupplied, buckling under waves of ill patients. The federal government made matters worse through willful ignorance, misinformation, and profiteering. Our system of commercial medicine failed the ultimate test, and thousands of Americans died. In this eye-opening cri de coeur, Snyder traces the societal forces that led us here and outlines the lessons we must learn to survive. In examining some of the darkest moments of recent history and of his own life, Snyder finds glimmers of hope and principles that could lead us out of our current malaise. Only by enshrining healthcare as a human right, elevating the authority of doctors and medical knowledge, and planning for our children's future can we create an America where everyone is truly free.

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 framtid. Denna tro visade sig vara felaktig. Auktoritarismen återkom till Ryssland när Putin insåg att fascistoida ideer var användbara då de rika oligarkernas makt skulle legitimeras. Under 2010-talet har det spridit sig från öst till väst genom Ryssarnas krigföring i Ukraina och cyberkriget i Europa och USA. Ryssland hittade allierade hos nationalister, oligarker och radikaler överallt och deras målsättning att upplösa Västvärldens institutioner, stater och värderingar fann en klangbotten inom Västvärldens egna gränser. Populismens framväxt, Britternas röst emot EU samt valet av Donald Trump var alla Ryska målsättningar men att de uppnått dessa mål säger något om Västvärldens sårbarhet. Timothy Snyders kraftfulla och avslöjande nutidshistoria är baserad på hans omfattande research och reporter-arbete. Snyder sträcker sig långt utanför de vanliga rubriksammanhangen för att kunna exponera det verkliga hotet mot lag och demokrati såsom vi känner den.

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 century’ Guardian 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 history, Timothy Snyder shows how Russia works within the West to destroy the West; by supporting the far right in Europe, invading Ukraine in 2014, and waging a cyberwar during the 2016 presidential campaign and the EU referendum. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the creation of Donald Trump, an American failure deployed as a Russian weapon. But this threat presents an opportunity to better understand the pillars of our freedoms and face the choices that will determine the future: equality or oligarchy, individualism or totalitarianism, truth or lies. ‘A brilliant and disturbing analysis, which should be read by anyone wishing to understand the political crisis currently engulfing the world’ Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of On Tyranny comes a stunning new chronicle of the rise of authoritarianism from Russia to Europe and America. "A brilliant analysis of our time."--Karl Ove Knausgaard, The New Yorker With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy seemed final. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. This faith was misplaced. Authoritarianism returned to Russia, as Vladimir Putin found fascist ideas that could be used to justify rule by the wealthy. In the 2010s, it has spread from east to west, aided by Russian warfare in Ukraine and cyberwar in Europe and the United States. Russia found allies among nationalists, oligarchs, and radicals everywhere, and its drive to dissolve Western institutions, states, and values found resonance within the West itself. The rise of populism, the British vote against the EU, and the election of Donald Trump were all Russian goals, but their achievement reveals the vulnerability of Western societies. In this forceful and unsparing work of contemporary history, based on vast research as well as personal reporting, Snyder goes beyond the headlines to expose the true nature of the threat to democracy and law. To understand the challenge is to see, and perhaps renew, the fundamental political virtues offered by tradition and demanded by the future. By revealing the stark choices before us--between equality or oligarchy, individuality or totality, truth and falsehood--Snyder restores our understanding of the basis of our way of life, offering a way forward in a time of terrible uncertainty.

Den kalde krigen tok slutt og det virket som om liberale demokratier hadde seiret og at det gikk mot en fredfull og globalisert verden, men erklærte vi seieren for tidlig? Det sies at fortiden er et annet land. Det kan også sies om fremtiden. Men hvilket land? For Europa og USA er svaret klart: Russland. Populisme og autoritære styresett har igjen funnet en grobunn i verden. Timothy Snyder viser oss hvordan Russland opererer i vesten for å ødelegge vestens styre og levesett ved å støtte høyrepopulister i Europa, invadere Ukraina og drive påvirkningskrig med Brexit og det amerikanske presidentvalget som omdreiningspunkter.

Det politiske klimaet i USA og Europa er i endring og i 2017 står vi overfor trusler som minner om totalitære tendenser som i ulike tapninger preget Europa i forrige århundre. Det er grunn til uro, bekrefter historikeren Timothy Snyder. Få kjenner det 20. århundres overskridelser bedre enn ham. Historien gjentar seg ikke, men den kan vise vei. Derfor har han skrevet en guide i 20 kapitler om hva vi skal passe på, og hva vi kan gjøre. I det tjuende århundre kollapset europeiske demokratier i fascisme, nazisme og kommunisme. Dette var bevegelser der lederne av de politiske partiene hevdet at de var gitt makten av folket og skulle være folkets stemme. De skulle beskytte folket mot trusler, gjerne av global art, de så bort fra fakta og lot halvsanne myter påvirke beslutninger. Europeisk historie viser oss at samfunn kan bryte sammen, demokratier kan falle, etikken kollapse og helt vanlige folk kan bli satt i uvirkelige situasjoner. Timothy Snyder presenterer 20 ting vi kan lære av det 20. århundre. Boken er basert på en liste han skrev etter presidentvalget i USA, som raskt ble spredt på sosiale medier. Dette er en viktig bok ikke bare for amerikanere, men for oss alle, nå som populistiske og autoritære tendenser er blitt tydeligere både i USA og i Europa. Snyder er professor i historie, og har spesialisert seg på Det tredje riket og Holocaust: «Dagens amerikanere er ikke smartere enn europeerne, deres demokratier ble overgitt til fascisme, nazisme og kommunisme i det 20. århundre. En av USAs fordeler er at de kanskje kan lære av andres erfaringer. Akkurat nå ville være et godt tidspunkt å gjøre det.»

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. During his brief life in Poland, Paris, and Vienna, Kelles-Krauz influenced or infuriated most of the leaders of the various socialist movements of Central Europe and France. His central ideas ultimately were not accepted by the socialist mainstream at the time of his death. However, a century later, we see that they anticipated late twentieth-century understanding on the importance of nationalism as a social force and the parameters of socialism in political theory and praxis. Kelles-Krauz was one of the only theoreticians of his age to advocate Jewish national rights as being equivalent to, for example, Polish national rights, and he correctly saw the struggle for national sovereignty as being central to future events in Europe. This was the first major monograph in English devoted to Kelles-Krauz, and it includes maps and personal photographs of Kelles-Krauz, his colleagues, and his family.

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. During his brief life in Poland, Paris, and Vienna, Kelles-Krauz influenced or infuriated most of the leaders of the various socialist movements of Central Europe and France. His central ideas ultimately were not accepted by the socialist mainstream at the time of his death. However, a century later, we see that they anticipated late twentieth-century understanding on the importance of nationalism as a social force and the parameters of socialism in political theory and praxis. Kelles-Krauz was one of the only theoreticians of his age to advocate Jewish national rights as being equivalent to, for example, Polish national rights, and he correctly saw the struggle for national sovereignty as being central to future events in Europe. This was the first major monograph in English devoted to Kelles-Krauz, and it includes maps and personal photographs of Kelles-Krauz, his colleagues, and his family.