On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder (Paperback, 2017)

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A controversial, timely intervention in world affairs from one of the most acclaimed historians of the twentieth century **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** 'A sort of survival book, a sort of symptom-diagnosis manual in terms of losing your democracy and what tyranny and authoritarianism look like up close' Rachel Maddow 'These 128 pages are a brief primer in every important thing we might have learned from the history of the last century, and all that we appear to have forgotten' Observer History does not repeat, but it does instruct. In the twentieth century, European democracies collapsed into fascism, Nazism and communism. These were movements in which a leader or a party claimed to give voice to the people, promised to protect them from global existential threats, and rejected reason in favour of myth. European history shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary people can find themselves in unimaginable circumstances. History can familiarise, and it can warn. Today, we are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to totalitarianism in the twentieth century. But when the political order seems imperilled, our advantage is that we can learn from their experience to resist the advance of tyranny. Now is a good time to do so.

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PublisherVintage Publishing
ISBN-139781847924889
eBay Product ID (ePID)232697835

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Number of Pages128 Pages
Publication NameOn Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
LanguageEnglish
SubjectPolitics
Publication Year2017
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPolitical Science
AuthorTimothy Snyder
FormatPaperback

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Item Height198 mm
Item Weight118 g
Item Width129 mm

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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorTimothy Snyder

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    A great explanation of the Ukraine and Russian situation. Why the past informs us about what is happening now. Important for people living in the west who did not understand why Putin invaded Ukraine but can on reading this book.

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    short, sharp and extraordinary in importance as an accurate definition of what's still in store for us unless we pay reflective intelligence to its understanding of the world's. plight. History does not repeat itself, but the madness of the past can arise anew in disguised forms which will be even more dangerous lest se are AWARE of what always waits us in the wings of the future.

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