The characters and their world come alive,Īnd the characters and its world still live on.Ĭonversation Starters is peppered with questions designed toĪnd invite us into the world that lives on. The Road to Unfreedom is another critically acclaimed book from the author of the bestselling On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century.ĮVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER And yet, Snyder believes that though it all looks grim, people can still do something to prevent the worst from happening. Yale history professor Timothy Snyder warns that the social, economic, and political repression in Russia could happen in the US and Europe. Political events in the past decade in Europe and America have seen Russia’s strong interference - Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it’s a denunciation of the European Union, the Brexit referendum, and the election of Donald Trump. By revealing the stark choices before us-between equality and oligarchy, individuality and totality, truth and falsehood-Snyder restores our understanding of the basis of our way of life, offering a way forward in a time of terrible uncertainty"-Provided by publisher.The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America by Timothy Snyder | Conversation Starters In this forceful and unsparing work of contemporary history, based on vast research as well as personal reporting, Snyder goes beyond the headlines to expose the true nature of the threat to democracy and law. election of Donald Trump were all Russian goals, but their achievement reveals the vulnerability of Western societies. The rise of populism, the British vote against the European Union, and the U.S. Russia found allies among nationalists, oligarchs, and radicals everywhere, and its drive to dissolve Western institutions, states, and values found resonance within the West itself. In the 2010s, it has spread from east to west, aided by Russian warfare in Ukraine and cyberwar in Europe and the United States. Authoritarianism returned to Russia, as Putin found that fascist ideas could be used to justify rule by the wealthy. The Road to Unfreedom was not the book I was expecting it to be, which is not necessarily a problem, since the thing it was is at least as good as the thing I thought it would be. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy seemed final. "From the author of On Tyranny comes a stunning new chronicle of the rise of authoritarianism from.
0 kommentar(er)
