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Books by Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder is the Levin Professor of History at Yale University, as well as a member of the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author of “On Tyranny,” “Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin” and “Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning.”

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On Tyranny

Timothy Snyder

Totalitarian regimes, sadly, are not confined to the history books. Current leaders like Trump and Putin are worryingly similar to totalitarian governments of the 1930s and 40s. History can teach us how to deal with these modern threats. Timothy Snyder has drawn 20 lessons from the past to help us resist tyrants today.

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