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Book SynopsisWhen Timothy Snyder's book Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin was published in 2010, it quickly established its author as one of the leading historians of his generation, a scholar who combined formidable linguistic skills he reads or speaks 11 languages with an elegant literary style, white-hot moral passion and a willingness to start arguments about some of the most fraught questions of the recent past.' New York Times
Timothy Snyder is Levin Professor of History at Yale University, and has written and edited a number of critically acclaimed and prize-winning books about twentieth-century European history: Bloodlands won the Hannah Arendt Prize, the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding, the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award in the Humanities and the literature award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Black Earth was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize.
Snyder is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of
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A hugely important historian of this nightmarish era. Nobody has explained it this way before -- William Leith * Evening Standard *
Table of Contents
- 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
