Recent examples, found around the world, demonstrate both how important conventions and mutual respect are as a way of maintaining order and civility - and how easily and carelessly they can be smashed. The road to unfreedom, as Snyder sees it, is one that runs right over the Enlightenment faith in reason and the reasonableness of others - the very underpinning, that is, of our institutions and values. In his chilling ‘Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin,’ Snyder explored the ghastly consequences of tyranny and the breakdown of human values and norms in the center of Europe. Worse, we are prepared to deny the humanity and rights of others. The Reading List:Īre We Traveling the ‘Road to Unfreedom’?” - “We are living in dangerous times, Timothy Snyder argues forcefully and eloquently in his new book, ‘The Road to Unfreedom.’ Too many of us, leaders and followers, are irresponsible, rejecting ideas that don’t fit our preconceptions, refusing discussion and rejecting compromise. The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America”. Timothy Snyder, professor of history at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. In 2017 he published On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century.We’ll talk with Timothy Snyder about his warning on the rise of authoritarianism from Russia to Europe and America. Among his numerous publications are six single-authored award-winning books: Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Central Europe: A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz (1998) The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1659-1999 (2003) Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist’s Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine (2005) The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke (2008) and Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2010).
He has held fellowships at the Centre Nationale des Recherches Scientifiques, Paris (1994-1995) the Harvard University’s Olin Institute for Strategic Studies (1997) served as an Academy Scholar at Harvard’s Center for International Affairs (1998-2001) and has held multiple fellowships at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna.Īt Yale, he teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses in modern eastern European political history and graduate seminars on the Holocaust, on Eastern European history as global history, and on the dynamics of international crisis in European political history.
He then became a British Marshall Scholar at Oxford University, where he completed his doctorate in 1997.
Snyder was born in the Midwest and received his Bachelor of Arts in European history and political science from Brown University.
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