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On Tyranny
- 128 pages · about 2 hours
- First published 2017
- 21 editions
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1 About this book
In previous books, Holocaust historian Timothy Snyder dissected the events and values that enabled the rise of Hitler and Stalin and the execution of their catastrophic policies. With Twenty Lessons, Snyder draws from the darkest hours of the twentieth century to provide hope for the twenty-first.
As he writes, "Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism and communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience."
Good for readers who want: politics, essays, history, and a short read.
- Political ethics
- Modern History
- Political culture
- Social science
- Political science
- Essays
- History
- History, modern
2 About Timothy Snyder
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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