Timothy Snyder Explained

Timothy Snyder
Birth Name:Timothy David Snyder
Birth Date:18 August 1969
Birth Place:Ohio, U.S.
Sub Discipline:History of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust
Children:2
Awards:American Historical Association's George Louis Beer Award (2003),[1]
Hannah Arendt Prize (2013),
The VIZE 97 Prize (2015)

Timothy David Snyder (born August 18, 1969) is an American historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust. He is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.[2] [3]

He has written several books, including Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, , The Road to Unfreedom, and Our Malady. Several of them have been described as best-sellers.[4] [5]

Snyder serves on the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Early life and education

Snyder was born on August 18, 1969,[6] in the Dayton, Ohio, area, the son of Christine Hadley Snyder, a teacher, accountant, and homemaker, and Estel Eugene Snyder, a veterinarian.[7] Snyder's parents were married in a Quaker ceremony in 1963 in Ohio, and his mother was active in preserving her family farmstead as a Quaker historic site. Snyder attended Centerville High School. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in history and political science from Brown University and his doctor of philosophy degree in modern history in 1995 at the University of Oxford while under the supervision of Timothy Garton Ash and Jerzy Jedlicki. He was a Marshall Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford, from 1991 to 1994.[8]

Career

Snyder held fellowships at the French National Centre for Scientific Research in Paris from 1994 to 1995, the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna in 1996, the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University in 1997, and was an Academy Scholar at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University from 1998 to 2001.

He has been an instructor at the College of Europe Natolin Campus, the Baron Velge Chair at the Université libre de Bruxelles, the Cleveringa Chair at the Leiden University, Philippe Romain Chair at the London School of Economics, and the 2013 René Girard Lecturer at Stanford University.[9] [10] [11] Prior to assuming the Richard C. Levin Professorship of History, Snyder was the Bird White Housum Professor of History at Yale University.

He is a member of the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.[12] On September 25, 2020, he was named as one of the 25 members of the "Real Facebook Oversight Board", an independent group monitoring Facebook.[13] He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Modern European History and East European Politics and Societies.

For the academic year 2013–2014, he held the Philippe Roman Chair of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science.[14]

Works

Snyder has written fifteen books and co-edited two. Snyder reads five European languages and speaks ten, enabling easier use of primary and archival sources in Germany and Central Europe during his research.[15] Snyder has stressed that knowing other languages is very important for his field, saying "If you don't know Russian, you don't really know what you're missing."[16]

Early works

Snyder's first book was the 1998 . It is a study in nationalism through the analysis of the life of Polish thinker Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz.[17]

In 2003, he published . It focuses on the last few hundred years of history of several Central and Eastern European countries.[18] [19]

In 2005, he published . That book is a study on the interwar history of the Second Polish Republic and Soviet Ukraine through the prism of the life of Henryk Józewski.[20]

In 2008, he published . The book is an analysis of the life of Wilhelm von Habsburg.[21]

Bloodlands

In 2010, Snyder published Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. It was a best seller[22] and has been translated into 30 languages.[23] [24] In an interview with Slovene historian Luka Lisjak Gabrijelčič in 2016, Snyder described the book as an attempt to overcome the limitations of national history in explaining the political crimes perpetrated in Eastern Europe in the 1930s and 1940s:

The point of Bloodlands was that we hadn't noticed a major event in European history: the fact 13 million civilians were murdered for political reasons in a rather confined space over a short period of time. The question of the book was: 'How this could have happened?' We have some history of Soviet terror, of the Holocaust, of the Ukrainian famine, of the German reprisals against the civilians. But all of these crimes happened in the same places in a short time span, so why not treat them as a single event and see if they can be unified under a meaningful narrative.[25]

Bloodlands received reviews ranging from highly critical to "rapturous".[26] [27] In assessing these reviews, Jacques Sémelin described it as one of those books that "change the way we look at a period in history". Sémelin noted that some historians have criticized the chronological construction of events, the arbitrary geographical delimitation, Snyder's numbers on victims and violence, and a lack of focus on interactions between different actors. Omer Bartov wrote that "the book presents no new evidence and makes no new arguments",[28] and in a highly critical review Richard Evans wrote that, because of its lack of causal argument, "Snyder's book is of no use", and that Snyder "hasn't really mastered the voluminous literature on Hitler's Germany", which "leads him into error in a number of places" regarding the politics of Nazi Germany.[29] On the other hand, Wendy Lower wrote that it was a "masterful synthesis",[30] John Connelly called it "morally informed scholarship of the highest calibre",[31] and Christopher Browning described it as "stunning". The journal Contemporary European History published a special forum on the book in 2012, featuring reviews by Mark Mazower, Dan Diner, Thomas Kühne, and Jörg Baberowski, as well as an introduction and response by Snyder.[32]

Later works

Snyder's 2012 book Thinking the Twentieth Century was co-authored with Tony Judt while Judt was in the late stages of ALS disease. The book is based primarily on material by Judt, edited by Snyder. It presents Judt's view on the history of the twentieth century.[33] [34]

Snyder published in 2015. The book, offering a "radically new explanation" of the Holocaust,[35] received mixed reviews.

In 2017, he published , a short book about how to prevent a democracy from becoming a tyranny, with a focus on modern United States politics and on what he called "America's turn towards authoritarianism".[36] The book topped The New York Times Best Seller list for paperback nonfiction in 2017[22] and remained on bestseller lists as late as 2021.[37] [38] On Tyranny has been featured in a rap song[39] and in poster exhibitions.[40] [41]

In 2018, he published . That book explores Russian attempts to influence Western democracies and the influence of philosopher Ivan Ilyin on Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian Federation in general.[42] [43] [44]

In 2020, he published a book on the American health care system, Our Malady.[45]

Snyder has published essays in publications such as the International Herald Tribune, The Nation, Foreign Affairs,[46] New York Review of Books,[47] The New York Times,[48] The Times Literary Supplement, The New Republic, Eurozine, Tygodnik Powszechny, the Chicago Tribune, and The Christian Science Monitor.

Views

Although primarily a scholar of twentieth century Eastern European history, in the mid-2010s Snyder became interested in U.S. history, contemporary politics, international relations, digital politics, health, and education. He has said that the defunding of departments of history and the humanities since the supposed post-Soviet end of history have led to a society without the "concepts and references" or structural tools to discuss eroding factors such as modern forms of populism.[49] In interviews with The Guardian for the article "Putin, Trump, Ukraine: how Timothy Snyder became the leading interpreter of our dark times",[50] Snyder described history as "a constant, exciting discovery of things that actually happened, which weren't anticipated and which were probably considered wildly improbable at the time. (…) And once you know that, then you can have the intuition that, well, maybe in this moment right now there's something happening which people aren't seeing." Drawing on the lessons of European history, Snyder brought into American political discussion the terms big lie, in reference to Donald Trump's claim that he won the 2020 election,[51] [52] [53] and memory laws, to describe Republican state legislators' bills designed to guide and control American understanding of the past, in some cases affirming free speech while banning divisive speech.[54] [55]

Views on Putin's Russia

Since Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, and the bombing of its energy infrastructure, Snyder has spoken and written widely on the history of Ukraine and its worldwide importance for democracy, on the disastrous geopolitical effects of the invasion, and on the need for other nations and individuals to stand for the protection of territory belonging to that state. Snyder has said "The fact that we have democracies at all is kind of remarkable", that democracy means that "the people have to rule, and they have to want to rule", warning against reliance on larger historical forces to bring democracy about.[56] Snyder launched a $1.25m crowdfunding to upgrade Ukraine's air defense.[57] [58] According to Snyder, the only way to end the war is for Putin's Russia to "win by losing", because only if Ukraine wins will it be possible for the dictator to leave the scene, and for the country to start a democratic process that will benefit Russia itself. Snyder is on the list of 200 Americans barred from entering Russian territory, under sanctions announced by the Russian government in November 2022.[59]

In 2015, Snyder delivered a series of lectures in Kyiv, Dnipro, and Kharkiv. The lectures, which were delivered in Ukrainian, were open to the public and focused on Snyder's historical research as well as the contemporary political situation in Ukraine.[60]

In The Road to Unfreedom, Snyder argues that Vladimir Putin's government in Russia is authoritarian, and that it uses fascist ideas in its rhetoric.[61] In December 2018, during a discussion with a fellow historian of Eastern Europe, John Connelly, Snyder referred to this as schizo-fascism:

Snyder has drawn the parallel between Hitler's rationale for territorial expansion and that of Putin. He predicted Russia's invasion of Crimea, outlining specific threats of an invasion in the New York Times op-ed "Don't Let Putin Grab Ukraine" on February 3, 2014, and said that Putin's rhetoric resembles Hitler's to the point of plagiarism: both claimed that a neighboring democracy was somehow tyrannical, both appealed to imaginary violations of minority rights as a reason to invade, both argued that a neighboring nation did not really exist and that its state was illegitimate.[62]

Marlène Laruelle commented that "Contrary to [Snyder's] claims, the Kremlin does not live in an ideological world inspired by Nazi Germany, but in one in which the Yalta decades, the Gorbachev-Yeltsin years, and the collapse of the Soviet Union still constitute the main historical referents and traumas."[63]

On March 14, 2023, Snyder briefed the United Nations Security Council in a meeting called by Russia to address Russophobia. Snyder said that the term "Russophobia" was used by Russia to justify its war crimes in Ukraine, and that harm done to Russians and Russian culture is primarily due to Moscow's own policies and actions, which resulted in driving Russian emigration following the invasion, suppression of independent media, attacks on cultural assets and landmarks, and mass killings of Russian speakers and citizens. After he was challenged by the Russian representative, Vasily Nebenzya, for sources, Snyder referred to Putin's statements denying the existence of Ukraine.[64]

Views on Ukraine

Snyder has written six books on Ukraine[65] and in 2022, to explain the origins and course of the Russo-Ukrainian war, he made his Yale lecture series The Making of Modern Ukraine available to the general public on YouTube[66] and as a podcast series[67] along with the syllabus and reading list.[68] The course had been viewed by millions by November 2022.[69] He has spoken[70] and written about the war in the press and he publishes history and commentary on his Substack platform as "Thinking About…"[71]

Olena Zelenska, First Lady of Ukraine, met with Snyder to discuss the mental health and resilience of Ukrainians at the Yalta European Strategy Annual Meeting in September 2023.[72]

Views on the Trump presidency

Asked in early 2017 how the agenda of the Trump administration compared with Adolf Hitler's rise to power, Snyder said that history "does not repeat. But it does offer us examples and patterns, and thereby enlarges our imaginations and creates more possibilities for anticipation and resistance".[73] Elaborating in 2021 on the resonance of Nazi history within Donald Trump's claim to a landslide victory, Snyder recalled the German Reich's "stab in the back" lie that its army did not really lose the First World War, but rather, Jews and left-wingers betrayed "true Germans" on the home front, leading to defeat. This lie, when repeated and expanded by Hitler to a claim that Jews were responsible for everything that is wrong, fueled anti-Semitism and led to the Holocaust.[74] Trump's "big lie" tears the very fabric of factuality, said Snyder, echoing Hannah Arendt, by denying verifiable reality and forcing believers to accept an illogical premise that Democrats rigged the 2020 election only for the presidency and not for members of Congress. It requires adoption of a conspiracy theory in which everyone is against the believer, and the high stakes of the lie demand action including violence.[75]

In a May 2017 interview with Salon, he warned that the Trump administration would attempt to subvert democracy by declaring a state of emergency and take full control of the government, similar to Hitler's Reichstag fire: "it's pretty much inevitable that they will try".[76] He repeated the warning in Commonweal on November 2, 2020: "The plan is not to win the popular (or even the electoral) vote, but rather to stay in power some other way."[77] According to Snyder, "Trump's campaign for president of the United States was basically a Russian operation." Snyder also warned that Trump's lies would lead to tyranny, as democracy is impossible in a society divided between true believers and everyone else, asserting that the only cure is truth.[78] [79]

In January 2021 Snyder published an essay in The New York Times on the future of the GOP in response to the siege of the United States Capitol, blaming Trump and his "enablers", Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley, for the insurrection fueled by their claims of election fraud, writing that "the breakers have an even stronger reason to see Trump disappear: It is impossible to inherit from someone who is still around. Seizing Trump's big lie might appear to be a gesture of support. In fact, he observed, a big lie can survive the liar, and in the case of Cruz and Hawley, it expresses a wish for Trump's political death."[80] [81]

Views on threats to democracy and pursuit of freedom

Snyder likened NBC's pre-2024 election hiring of former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel to the anticipatory obedience he described in his book On Tyranny: "Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked." In an interview with NBC's sister station MSNBC, he cited McDaniel's role in trying to disassemble our democracy and said: “What NBC is doing is saying, ‘Well, [it] could be that in ’24 our entire system will break down. Could be we’ll have an authoritarian leader. Oh, but look, we’ve made this adjustment in advance because we’ve brought into the middle of NBC somebody who has already taken part in an attempt to take our system down,’" adding, "If you are going to be on American media, you should be somebody who believes there is something called truth, there are things called facts and you can pursue them."[82]

On April 10, 2024, Snyder joined with over 35 musicians, actors, thinkers, historians, entrepreneurs, and diplomats in an appeal[83] to Congress for aid to Ukraine in defense of democracy and in the fight “for our safety and for everyone’s freedom.” The open letter states that Ukrainian resistance to Russian dictatorship protects the international order, makes other wars in Europe impossible, and supports American interests, deterring China without provoking Beijing.

In response to a request from the United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, Timothy Snyder provided written and oral testimony[84] [85] for the April 17, 2024, session: “Defending America from the Chinese Communist Party’s Political Warfare, Part I.” Snyder urged Congress to understand political warfare as "someone else trying to get you to do something you ought not to." He emphasized the role Americans play in the efforts of hostile foreign powers to exploit domestic weaknesses using divisive propaganda intended to show that democracy is impotent, hypocritical, and not worth defending. These messages are successful only when echoed by politicians, billionaires and other citizens, some unknowingly, but against their own self-interest. Financial vulnerability of politicians is an opening for psychological operations by hostile actors as it renders targets susceptible to manipulation by their foreign patrons. Political warfare conducted by authoritarian regimes where corruption is normal promotes messages that aim to normalize corruption externally in America and elsewhere.

Snyder asserted the centrality of the war in Ukraine to the general problem of political warfare. In this war, international order, the reputation of democracy and alliance structures are all at stake. While Americans may not see the connections, Beijing and Taiwan are clear that Ukraine’s self-defense deters Chinese aggression in the Pacific. He described the increasing conformity of Chinese propaganda methods and themes with those used by Russian disinformation campaigns designed to promote American inaction and interfere with elections, backing candidates most likely to support authoritarian regimes. Common tropes are: Ukrainians are Nazis, the Ukraine war is all about NATO enlargement, Ukraine is corrupt, democracy is powerless to do anything about Ukraine, Americans should pay attention to the border and not do anything about Ukraine, and Joseph Biden has accepted bribes.

In written testimony and during the oral hearings, Snyder and members of Congress gave examples of Marjorie Taylor Greene, J.D. Vance, and Donald Trump publicly promoting foreign propaganda tropes. Snyder responded directly to Greene’s oral testimony suggesting significant Nazi influence in Ukraine with the fact that no far-right party in Ukraine has ever gotten more than 3% of a national vote. Snyder explained that availability of propaganda memes and messages from outlets like X (Twitter) obviates the need for direct contact between the Americans who spread them and the foreign actors and their media outlets who source them originally. When government or self-policing of hostile foreign propaganda by social media has been attempted, it is successful, but X (Twitter), notably, has refused to self-regulate.

Personal life

In 1994, Snyder married fellow academic Milada Vachudova, with whom he also collaborated on scholarly work.[86] [87] Snyder's second marriage was in 2005 to Marci Shore, a professor of European cultural and intellectual history at Yale University. The couple have two children together and reside in New Haven, Connecticut.[88] [89]

In December 2019, Snyder fell seriously ill following a series of medical misdiagnoses. While recuperating through the coronavirus pandemic he wrote Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary, about the problems of the for-profit health care system in the USA, and the coronavirus response so far.[90]

Charity

On November 2, 2022, Timothy Snyder became the tenth ambassador of UNITED24.[91] He has set up a fundraiser to collect donations for a system to counter Russian unmanned aerial vehicles in Ukraine, and thereby to protect Ukraine's critical infrastructure.[92] He also launched the "Documenting Ukraine" project to support journalists, scholars, artists, public intellectuals, and archivists based in Ukraine in their efforts to create a factual record of the war.[93]

Starting in November 2023, Snyder will lead 90 scholars in the "Ukrainian History Global Initiative" to study Ukraine and its history. The initiative is a charitable foundation that will include disciplines beyond history and sponsor three major academic conferences, various publications, and archaeological excavations.[94] [95]

Awards

State Decorations and Orders

Honorary Doctorates

Selected works

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.historians.org/prizes/AWARDED/BeerWinner.htm George Louis Beer Prize
  2. Web site: Timothy Snyder Department of History . history.yale.edu . May 24, 2022 . en.
  3. http://www.leipzig.de/int/en/newsarchiv/2012/Ian-Kershaw-and-Timothy-Snyder-to-be-honoured-with-Leipzig-Book-Prize-for-European-Understanding-2012-21955.shtml Ian Kershaw and Timothy Snyder to be honoured with Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding 2012
  4. News: Gonzales . Susan . October 21, 2017 . One Yale historian, two NYT bestsellers . Yale News . February 18, 2021.
  5. Web site: Timothy Snyder Books . timothysnyder.org . April 8, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221222003424/https://www.timothysnyder.org/books . December 22, 2022.
  6. Web site: Library of Congress Authorities . LCNAF Cataloging in Publication data – LC Control Number: no 98080445 . . January 22, 2010 . June 19, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120619001403/http://authorities.loc.gov/ . live .
  7. Book: Estel Eugene Snyder and Christine Hadley Snyder . . September 8, 2015 . . Crown . 978-1-101-90346-9 . April 16, 2017 . January 9, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210109202541/https://books.google.com/books?id=rnDWBQAAQBAJ&q=%22Estel+Eugene+Snyder+and+Christine+Hadley+Snyder%22&pg=PA349 . live .
  8. http://www.pbk.org/home/newsview.aspx?id=829 "Timothy Snyder Receives 2011 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award"
  9. Web site: Professor Timothy Snyder . . . July 30, 2017 . January 9, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210109202543/https://history.yale.edu/people/timothy-snyder . live .
  10. Web site: Timothy Snyder, author of Bloodlands, to speak at Stanford on March 13 . . . March 6, 2013 . July 30, 2017 . January 9, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210109202543/https://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/march/snyder-girard-lecture-030613.html . live .
  11. Web site: Timothy Snyder . . . July 30, 2017 . July 30, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170730015142/http://www.lse.ac.uk/IDEAS/people/Philippe-Roman-Chair/TimothySnyder.aspx . live .
  12. Web site: Department of History – Timothy Snyder . Yale University . April 10, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230308182138/https://www.iwm.at/program/documenting-ukraine . dead . March 8, 2023.
  13. Web site: The Citizens . September 16, 2020 . October 6, 2020 . January 9, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210109202548/https://the-citizens.com/real-facebook-oversight/about-us/ . live .
  14. Web site: Timothy Snyder – Individual Bios – People – IDEAS – Home . Lse.ac.uk . March 5, 2014 . March 5, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140305012708/http://www.lse.ac.uk/IDEAS/people/bios/TimothySnyder.aspx . live .
  15. Web site: A review of 'On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century'. Daily Kos. March 14, 2020.
  16. https://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2011/06/hitler-and-stalin "Timothy Snyder, interviewed by 'Prospero'
  17. Blejwas . Stanislaus A. . 1998 . Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Central Europe: A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz (1872–1905). By Timothy Snyder. Harvard Papers in Ukrainian Studies. Cambridge: Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, 1997. Dist. Harvard University Press, xxv, 321 pp. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Photographs. Maps. $18.00, paper. . Slavic Review . en . 57 . 4 . 892–893 . 10.2307/2501061 . 2501061 . 0037-6779.
  18. Porter . Brian . 2005 . The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569–1999. By Timothy Snyder. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. xvi, 367 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. Figures. Tables. Maps. $35.00, hard bound. . Slavic Review . 64 . 1 . 166–167 . 10.2307/3650072 . 0037-6779 . 3650072 . 164557521.
  19. Himka . John-Paul . February 2004 . Reviews of Books:The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999 Timothy Snyder . The American Historical Review . 109 . 1 . 280 . 10.1086/530310 . 0002-8762 . 10.1086/530310.
  20. Brown . Kate . December 1, 2006 . Timothy Snyder. Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2005. Pp. xxiii, 347. $35.00Reviews of BooksEurope: Early Modern and Modern . The American Historical Review . en . 111 . 5 . 1629–1630 . 10.1086/ahr.111.5.1629 . 0002-8762.
  21. Wandycz . Piotr S. . May 13, 2009 . The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke (review) . Journal of Cold War Studies . en . 11 . 2 . 117–119 . 10.1162/jcws.2009.11.2.117 . 1531-3298 . 57560470.
  22. News: One Yale historian, two NYT bestsellers . Gonzales . Susan . October 21, 2017. Yale News. February 18, 2021.
  23. Web site: Bloodlands Editions . goodreads . April 9, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230409155612/https://www.goodreads.com/work/editions/6765357-bloodlands-europe-between-hitler-and-stalin?per_page=100&utf8=%E2%9C%93 . April 9, 2023.
  24. http://www.niutoday.info/2012/08/29/best-selling-author-historian-timothy-snyder-to-deliver-w-bruce-lincoln-lecture-sept-19/ "Best-selling author, historian Timothy Snyder to deliver W. Bruce Lincoln lecture Sept. 19"
  25. Web site: Beware the destruction of the State. An Interview with Timothy Snyder. 2016-09-09. Eurozine. 2020-11-15. 2021-01-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20210109202548/https://www.eurozine.com/beware-the-destruction-of-the-state/. live.
  26. Web site: The Bleak Prophecy of Timothy Snyder. April 12, 2019. The Chronicle of Higher Education. April 16, 2019. January 9, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210109202551/https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-bleak-prophecy-of-timothy-snyder/. live.
  27. Sémelin. Jacques. February 14, 2013. Timothy Snyder and his Critics. Books & Ideas. en. November 16, 2020. January 9, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210109202549/https://booksandideas.net/Timothy-Snyder-and-his-Critics.html. live.
  28. Bartov. Omer. 2010. Review of "Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin". live. Slavic Review. https://web.archive.org/web/20210109202605/http://defendinghistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Omer-Bartovs-review-of-Bloodlands.pdf. January 9, 2021. January 4, 2021.
  29. Evans. Richard J.. November 4, 2010. Who Remembers the Poles?. London Review of Books. 32. 21. live. https://archive.today/20200726215640/https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v32/n21/richard-j.-evans/who-remembers-the-poles. July 26, 2020.
  30. Lower. Wendy. May 9, 2011. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. Journal of Genocide Research. 13. 1–2. 165–167. 10.1080/14623528.2011.561952. 30363015.
  31. Connely. John. September 26, 2011. Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin. Journal of Genocide Research. 13. 3. 313–352. 10.1080/14623528.2011.606703. 72891599.
  32. Web site: May 2012. Forum: Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands. Contemporary European History.
  33. News: The Liveliest Mind in New York. New York. August 8, 2010. January 9, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210109202547/https://nymag.com/news/features/64626/index2.html. live.
  34. News: Ascherson . Neal . February 2, 2012 . Thinking the Twentieth Century by Tony Judt – review . en-GB . The Guardian . March 15, 2020 . 0261-3077.
  35. News: Schuessler . Jennifer . September 7, 2015 . Timothy Snyder's 'Black Earth' Puts Holocaust, and Himself, in Spotlight . . September 10, 2015.
  36. News: 'A presidency of one': Key federal agencies increasingly compelled to benefit Trump. Rucker. Philip. Costa. Robert. October 2, 2019. The Washington Post. February 18, 2021.
  37. News: This Week's Bestsellers: January 25, 2021. Juris. Carolyn. January 22, 2021. Publishers Weekly. February 18, 2021.
  38. News: Washington Post paperback bestsellers. February 9, 2021. The Washington Post. February 18, 2021.
  39. Web site: donGURALesko . LATAJĄCE RYBY . YouTube . May 18, 2019 . April 9, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230312151510/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg_x8fFV7EY . March 12, 2023.
  40. News: Stav Ziv . Inside one historian's attempt to prevent tyranny in America . April 9, 2023 . Newsweek . April 20, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230318130555/https://www.newsweek.com/inside-quest-prevent-tyranny-historian-tim-snyder-donald-trump-586305 . March 18, 2023.
  41. Web site: Smith Gallery to open two new exhibits September 1 . App State College of Fine and Applied Arts . August 29, 2017 . April 9, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211202103259/https://faa.appstate.edu/news/smith-gallery-open-two-new-exhibits-september-1 . December 2, 2021.
  42. News: Lucas . Edward . March 24, 2018 . Review: The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America by Timothy Snyder — why the West is losing to Putin . The Times . May 16, 2018.
  43. News: April 5, 2018 . Understand Putin by understanding his favourite thinkers . The Economist . May 16, 2018.
  44. News: Adams . Tim . April 15, 2018 . The Road to Unfreedom by Timothy Snyder review – chilling and unignorable . The Guardian . May 16, 2018.
  45. News: Review Arguing for a right to life, liberty, happiness, and health care . en-US . . April 22, 2023 . 0190-8286.
  46. News: Timothy Snyder . Ukraine Holds the Future – The War Between Democracy and Nihilism . September/October 2022 . Foreign Affairs . September 6, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230330055601/https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/ukraine-war-democracy-nihilism-timothy-snyder . March 30, 2023.
  47. Web site: List of articles by Snyder in The New York Review of Books . December 21, 2010 . May 28, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140528225419/http://www.nybooks.com/contributors/timothy-snyder-2/ . live .
  48. News: Timothy Snyder . We should say it. Russia is fascist. . April 9, 2023 . . May 19, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230326062207/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/19/opinion/russia-fascism-ukraine-putin.html . March 26, 2023.
  49. "Has the threat of Trump really gone? – Timothy Snyder". Channel 4 News, January 8, 2021. Retrieved January 10, 2021
  50. News: Putin, Trump, Ukraine: how Timothy Snyder became the leading interpreter of our dark times . Baird . Robert P . March 30, 2023 . The Guardian . April 4, 2023.
  51. News: Timothy Snyder . The American Abyss . The New York Times . April 9, 2023 . January 9, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20230405074229/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/magazine/trump-coup.html . April 5, 2023.
  52. News: Timothy Snyder . Trump's big election lie pushes America toward autocracy . April 9, 2023 . Boston Globe . November 11, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230129004133/https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/11/11/opinion/trumps-big-election-lie-pushes-america-toward-autocracy/ . January 29, 2023.
  53. News: MSNBC . Rachel Maddow . 'Lies lead to violence': Snyder on the Big Lie's toxic cycle . April 9, 2023 . January 7, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220128093437/https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-lies-lead-to-violence-snyder-on-the-big-lie-s-toxic-cycle-130338885539 . January 28, 2022.
  54. Charles Pierce . Timothy Snyder Is Exactly Right: American Conservatives Are Seeking Their Own 'Memory Laws' . Esquire . July 9, 2021 . April 9, 2023.
  55. News: Timothy Snyder . The War on History Is a War on Democracy . April 9, 2023 . The New York Times Magazine . June 29, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230327185055/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/magazine/memory-laws.html . March 27, 2023.
  56. Web site: Sean Illing . Ukraine and the problem of "futurelessness". Historian Timothy Snyder on the war in Ukraine and the future of democracy . https://web.archive.org/web/20221128054943/https://www.vox.com/2022/6/21/23165718/vox-conversations-ukraine-russia-timothy-snyder-democracy . November 28, 2022 . April 9, 2023 . Vox Conversatons. June 21, 2022 .
  57. Web site: A fundraiser that will make history . November 28, 2022 . u24.gov.ua.
  58. Web site: American historian Timothy Snyder becomes an ambassador for the UNITED24 platform, launching the 'Shahed Hunter' fundraiser . President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy Official Website . April 9, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230401170948/https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/amerikanskij-istorik-timoti-snajder-stav-ambasadorom-platfor-78885 . April 1, 2023.
  59. News: Rankin . Jennifer . November 28, 2022 . 'Russia wins by losing': Timothy Snyder on raising funds for Ukrainian drone defence . The Guardian . November 28, 2022.
  60. Web site: Котвіцька (Kotvitska) . Катерина (Каterina) . Історія для майбутнього . History for the future . Україна Молода (Ukraine Young) . December 22, 2021 . uk.
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  63. Web site: Is Russia Really "Fascist"? A Comment on Timothy Snyder . PONARS Eurasia . January 14, 2019 . January 9, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210109202627/http://www.ponarseurasia.org/memo/russia-really-fascist-reply-timothy-snyder . live .
  64. Web site: 'Russophobia' Term Used to Justify Moscow's War Crimes in Ukraine, Historian Tells Security Council . United Nations . March 14, 2023 . April 7, 2023.
  65. Web site: Timothy Snyder . My books about Ukraine . https://web.archive.org/web/20220701162750/https://snyder.substack.com/p/my-books-about-ukraine . July 1, 2022 . April 8, 2023 . Thinking about.... March 5, 2022 .
  66. Web site: Timothy Snyder: The Making of Modern Ukraine Yale Courses on Youtube . https://web.archive.org/web/20230403181918/https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNewfxO7LhBoz_1Mx1MaO6sw_ . April 3, 2023 . April 8, 2023 . YouTube.
  67. Web site: Timothy Snyder . The Making of Modern Ukraine . https://web.archive.org/web/20230319184650/https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-making-of-modern-ukraine/id1653131950 . March 19, 2023 . April 9, 2023 . Apple Podcasts. November 7, 2022 .
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  69. Web site: Opinion | Why a Yale prof's Ukrainian history course posted online has earned millions of views. November 23, 2022. thestar.com.
  70. News: On Point . WBUR . Historian Timothy Snyder on how war ends in Ukraine . April 9, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221130130028/https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2022/10/25/historian-timothy-snyder-on-how-the-russia-ukraine-war-will-end . November 30, 2022.
  71. Web site: Timothy Snyder . Thinking about... . https://web.archive.org/web/20230319183425/https://snyder.substack.com/ . March 19, 2023 . April 9, 2023 . Substack.
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  73. Matthias Kolb . Timothy . Snyder . We have at most a year to defend American democracy, perhaps less . . February 7, 2017 . February 28, 2017 . January 9, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210109202621/https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/timothy-snyder-wir-haben-maximal-ein-jahr-zeit-um-amerikas-demokratie-zu-verteidigen-1.3365852 . live .
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  75. News: Timothy Snyder on the present and future of Trump's 'big lie' . January 25, 2021 . CBS News Front Burner . January 14, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210125174810/https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/timothy-snyder-on-the-present-and-future-of-trump-s-big-lie-1.5872248 . January 25, 2021 .
  76. News: Devega. Chauncey. May 1, 2017. Historian Timothy Snyder: "It's pretty much inevitable" that Trump will try to stage a coup and overthrow democracy. Salon. May 1, 2017. January 9, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210109202634/https://www.salon.com/2017/05/01/historian-timothy-snyder-its-pretty-much-inevitable-that-trump-will-try-to-stage-a-coup-and-overthrow-democracy/. live.
  77. News: Timothy Snyder . Not a Normal Election . April 10, 2023 . Commonweal . https://web.archive.org/web/20221221111242/https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/not-normal-election . December 21, 2022.
  78. "Historian Timothy Snyder: Trump's lies are creeping tyranny" . Vox. May 22, 2017.
  79. News: Maddow . Rachel . Trump's 'big lie' keeps supporters in thrall but truth is the cure . October 16, 2022 . MSNBC . January 7, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20221016180601/https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-s-big-lie-keeps-supporters-in-thrall-but-truth-is-the-cure-snyder-99124293932 . October 16, 2022 .
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  81. News: Stelter . Brian . Experts warn that Trump's 'big lie' will outlast his presidency . CNN Business . January 11, 2021.
  82. News: Pengelly . Martin . 'Pretty bad': NBC condemned by top US historian over role for Ronna McDaniel . March 27, 2024 . The Guardian . March 27, 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240327182626/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/26/nbc-condemned-by-top-us-historian-over-ronna-mcdaniel-appointment?ref=upstract.com . March 27, 2024 .
  83. News: Opinion: Congress must let Ukraine win, say Barbra Streisand, Sean Penn, Imagine Dragons, Timothy Snyder and other luminaries . April 11, 2024 . CNN . April 10, 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240410192657/https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/10/opinions/sean-penn-barbra-streisand-imgaine-dragons-congress-ukraine-snyder/index.html . April 10, 2024 .
  84. Web site: Snyder . Timothy . Testimony to Oversight Committee "Defending America from the Chinese Communist Party's Political Warfare, Part I" . April 20, 2024.
  85. Web site: Defending America from the Chinese Communist Party's Political Warfare, Part I . YouTube . April 17, 2024 . GOP Oversight . April 20, 2024.
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  87. Vachudová . Milada Anna . Snyder . Tim . Are Transitions Transitory? Two Types of Political Change in Eastern Europe Since 1989 . East European Politics and Societies: And Cultures . 11 . 1 . 1996 . 0888-3254 . 10.1177/0888325497011001001 . 1–35.
  88. Web site: Marriage announcement in Lehigh Valley Morning Call, February 13, 2005 . February 13, 2005 . March 4, 2014 . December 20, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141220212015/http://articles.mcall.com/2005-02-13/entertainment/3581057_1_groom-timothy-snyder-bride . live .
  89. Web site: Timothy Snyder . Jewish Book Council . March 17, 2019 . December 18, 2023.
  90. News: October 2, 2020 . Review Arguing for a right to life, liberty, happiness and health care . March 18, 2024 . Washington Post . en-US . 0190-8286.
  91. Web site: American historian Timothy Snyder becomes an ambassador for the UNITED24 platform, launching the 'Shahed Hunter' fundraiser.
  92. Web site: Timothy Snyder's Fundraiser for the "Shahed Hunter" has Reached Its Goal . April 1, 2023 . u24.gov.ua . en.
  93. Web site: Documenting Ukraine . IWM Website . April 10, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230308182138/https://www.iwm.at/program/documenting-ukraine . March 8, 2023.
  94. News: Higgins . Charlotte . Historians come together to wrest Ukraine's past out of Russia's shadow . December 13, 2023 . The Guardian . November 29, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20231213205833/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/29/historians-come-together-to-wrest-ukraines-past-out-of-russias-shadow . December 13, 2023 .
  95. News: Timothy Snyder to lead new international research project on Ukrainian history . December 3, 2023 . Ukrainska Pravda . November 30, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20231203074500/https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/11/30/7431092/ . December 3, 2023 .
  96. Web site: Annual McGinty Lecture to be given by Timothy Snyder, award-winning historian . SALVE today . June 15, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240417160516/https://today.salve.edu/annual-mcginty-lecture-to-be-given-by-timothy-snyder-award-winning-historian/ . April 17, 2024 . April 16, 2024.
  97. Web site: Transatlantic Bridge Awards Honor Amb. Wendy Sherman, U.S. Chamber CEO Suzanne Clark, Prof. Timothy Snyder . Delegation of the European Union to the United States of America . June 15, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240511075524/https://www.eeas.europa.eu/delegations/united-states-america/transatlantic-bridge-awards-honor-amb-wendy-sherman-us-chamber-ceo-suzanne-clark-prof-timothy-snyder_en?s=253 . May 11, 2024 . May 10, 2024.
  98. Web site: Medal of the earned society of the Czech Republic.
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  100. Web site: Madame de Staël Prize . live. https://web.archive.org/web/20230206201847/https://allea.org/allea-madame-stael-prize/previous-laureates/?s=. February 6, 2023 . February 6, 2023 . All European Academies (ALLEA).
  101. Web site: FNP Prize ceremony. Foundation for Polish Science. December 5, 2018 . December 6, 2018. January 9, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210109202634/https://www.fnp.org.pl/en/wreczono-nagrody-fundacji-na-rzecz-nauki-polskiej-2018/. live.
  102. News: Yale Professors Emily Erikson and Timothy Snyder awarded MacMillan Center's International Book Prizes . June 16, 2024 . September 30, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230917035550/https://news.yale.edu/2016/09/30/yale-professors-emily-erikson-and-timothy-snyder-awarded-macmillan-centers-international . September 17, 2023.
  103. Web site: Człowiek Roku "Gazety Wyborczej" . Wikipedia Wolna encyklopedia . June 15, 2024.
  104. Web site: Dagmar Havlova Presents 17th VIZE Award to Historian Timothy Snyder in Prague . American Friends of the Czech Republic . October 5, 2015 . July 30, 2017 . February 15, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170215022004/http://www.afocr.org/gallery/dagmar-havlova-presents-17th-vize-award-historian-timothy-snyder-prague . live .
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  110. Web site: Snyder book honored by American Academy of Arts and Letters . . March 16, 2012 . July 30, 2017 . January 9, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210109202648/https://news.yale.edu/2012/03/16/snyder-book-honored-american-academy-arts-and-letters . live .
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  112. Web site: Previous Winners . American Association for Ukrainian Studies.
  113. News: Three Yale faculty win 2017 Guggenheim Fellowships for their 'exceptional promise' . April 7, 2017.
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  116. Web site: May 1, 2022 . Awards – PIASA . April 23, 2023 . en-US.
  117. News: Lithuanian Diplomacy Star awarded to Yale professor and author Timothy Snyder . June 15, 2024 . October 28, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240222165828/https://lithuaniatribune.com/lithuanian-diplomacy-star-awarded-to-yale-professor-and-author-timothy-snyder/ . February 22, 2024.
  118. News: Lithuanian foreign minister presents state award to US historian Snyder . June 15, 2024 . March 3, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240402120516/https://www.baltictimes.com/lithuanian_foreign_minister_presents_state_award_to_us_historian_snyder/ . April 2, 2024.
  119. Web site: Historian Timothy Snyder Gets Austrian Cross Of Honor . Austrian Embassy Washington . June 16, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240616182150/https://www.archive.austria.org/the-latest/2020/9/25/historian-snyder-honored . June 16, 2024 . September 25, 2020.
  120. Web site: Урочисте вручення атрибутів Почесного доктора Каразінського університету американському історику, письменнику Timothy Snyder . V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University . June 16, 2024 . September 7, 2023.
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  122. Web site: Honorary doctors at the Faculty of Humanities . April 27, 2023 . www.ht.lu.se . en.
  123. News: HT-samtal #76 - Timothy Snyder . June 16, 2024 . June 27, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221206022820/https://soundcloud.com/ht-samtal/ht-samtal-76-timothy-snyder . December 6, 2022.
  124. Web site: Professor Timothy Snyder becomes honorary doctor of the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University . Polish Science . International Information Service of Polish Science and Innovation . June 16, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240616183151/https://polishscience.pl/en/professor-timothy-snyder-becomes-honorary-doctor-of-the-maria-curie-sklodowska-university/ . June 16, 2024 . October 22, 2018.

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