Timothy Snyder
American historian of Central and Eastern Europe and the Holocaust; author of Bloodlands, On Tyranny and On Freedom, and writer of the newsletter 'Thinking about...'.
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Thinking about...Newsletter His Substack newsletter on history, tyranny and Ukraine.
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- Back to Colonialism 2 Sept 2026
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- How was Mass Killing Possible? 26 Aug 2026
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- Why Was Communism Appealing? 19 Aug 2026
- What is Ukraine? 12 Aug 2026
- On National Interest, Power, and Ethics with Susan Rice 11 Aug 2026
- What is Communism? 5 Aug 2026
- What is Fascism? 29 Jul 2026
- A World of Empire 22 Jul 2026
- New Lecture Series for the Public: "Hitler and Stalin Today" 15 Jul 2026
- Supergirl (Movie Review) 11 Jul 2026
- On Tyranny — Special 250th Edition 4 Jul 2026
- Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio (updated) 29 Jun 2026
- Of Stoicism and Stupor 27 Jun 2026
- Strongmen Can Fail if We Act with Joyce Vance 23 Jun 2026
- Iran, Ukraine, and Freedom with Jake Sullivan and Jon Finer 22 Jun 2026
- Utopias of Violence 21 Jun 2026
- Capitulation Day 19 Jun 2026
- Strongmen, Oligarchs, & Fascists: Thinking Live with Ruth Ben-Ghiat 15 Jun 2026
- Sky Defense: Bringing it Home 13 Jun 2026
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The Power of the Powerless Recommends
In the end I think Havel will be remembered as the outstanding East European dissident writer, and he will be remembered as such above all for this essay.
fivebooks.com 2012-01-25
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Recommends
Milan Kundera was of course not really a dissident, but this book gets across the heartfelt reality of Stalinist faith.
fivebooks.com 2012-01-25
The Church and the Left Recommends
In The Church and the Left Michnik argues for an untraditional alliance. He says that the left has to talk to the Polish Catholic Church, especially after the Vatican's internal reform [in 1965].
fivebooks.com 2012-01-25
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The Captive Mind Recommends
Milosz tried to explain – as the title suggests – how thinking people could accept communism from inside the communist system.
fivebooks.com 2012-01-25
Homage to Catalonia Recommends
The reason why I am so fond of Homage to Catalonia, and see it as an even more relevant precursor to dissent, is that in it you can see a man of the Left learning to make the distinction that breaks down the Left with a big L into lots of little lefts.
fivebooks.com 2012-01-25
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- Back to Colonialism 2 Sept
- Our Trade War Against Ourselves 30 Aug
- How was Mass Killing Possible? 26 Aug
- Why Was Communism Appealing? 19 Aug
- What is Ukraine? 12 Aug
- On National Interest, Power, and Ethics with Susan Rice 11 Aug
Show 14 more
- What is Communism? 5 Aug
- What is Fascism? 29 Jul
- A World of Empire 22 Jul
- New Lecture Series for the Public: "Hitler and Stalin Today" 15 Jul
- Supergirl (Movie Review) 11 Jul
- On Tyranny — Special 250th Edition 4 Jul
- Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio (updated) 29 Jun
- Of Stoicism and Stupor 27 Jun
- Strongmen Can Fail if We Act with Joyce Vance 23 Jun
- Homage to Catalonia 25 Jan 2012 Recommends
- The Captive Mind 25 Jan 2012 Recommends
- The Church and the Left 25 Jan 2012 Recommends
- The Book of Laughter and Forgetting 25 Jan 2012 Recommends
- The Power of the Powerless 25 Jan 2012 Recommends