| Title | : | The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America |
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| ISBN | : | 0525574476 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 978-0525574477 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Kindle, Hardcover, Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 pages |
A brilliant analysis of our time.Karl Ove Knausgaard, The New Yorker
With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy seemed final. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. This faith was misplaced. Authoritarianism returned to Russia, as Putin found fascist ideas that could be used to justify rule by the wealthy. In the 2010s, it has spread from east to west, aided by Russian warfare in Ukraine and cyberwar in Europe and the United States.
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. The rise of populism, the British vote against the EU, and the election of Donald Trump were all Russian goals, but their achievement reveals the vulnerability of Western societies.
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. To understand the challenge is to see, and perhaps renew, the fundamental political virtues offered by tradition and demanded by the future. By revealing the stark choices before us between equality or oligarchy, individuality or 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.
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America Reviews
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I read the book entitled: “The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America” by Timothy Snyder after reading Snyder’s book entitled: “On Tyranny” which was an informative easy read but little than a pamphlet. By contrast this is a deep scholarly work of the type
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In this moment in which Donald Trump has made America into a literal police state, the most instructive & even harrowing assessment is Timothy Snyder ~ The Road To Unfreedom. This is a work of history, not hysteria, as some of my Russia blinkered friends would
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so i'm just an average joe. bs from a suny school. not unintelligent but not a scholar. chapter six was worth the purchase price alone. wow. most things i knew about regarding the manipulation of the american people and the war on the american political apparatus
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Unlike On Tyranny in style of delivery, The Road To Unfreedom is a deep historical dive into the relationship between Russia, Ukraine, the EU and the United States. An invaluable resource for understanding the very root and real threat of Putin's Russia and how we Americans
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The author is an expert about what he writes.He writes with a reason that all can embrace.He clearly understands the bill of rights and its gift to democracy
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As a professor of history Timothy Snyder has written extensively on authoritarian and totalitarian movements in the twentieth century. The Road to Unfreedom is one of his briefer works, but an extremely important one nonetheless. Snyder's most important contribution to the
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Snyder's book, The Road to Unfreedom is daunting. It's jacket has the words Russia, Europe, America, and that might lead you to believe it covers each country in succession. Instead it covers them in parallel with a lot of emphasis on Russia. You need
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If you're not a 100% lover of Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party in the US, and if you are a stickler that facts support a conclusion, then you will find some irritating assertions in this book. It does give a good explanation of the philosophers that provide the
