| Title | : | Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin |
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| ISBN | : | 1541600061 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 1541600061 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Kindle, Hardcover, Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 592 pages |
| Publication | : | Basic Books (April 26, 2022) |
From the author of the international bestsellerOn Tyranny, the definitive history of Hitlers and Stalinspolitics of masskilling, explaining why Ukraine has been at the center of Western history for the last century.Americans call the SecondWorld War the Good War. But before it even began, Americas ally Stalin had killed millions of his own citizensand kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. At wars end, German and Soviet killing sites fell behind theIronCurtain, leaving the history of mass killing in darkness.Assiduously researched, deeply humane, and utterly definitive,Bloodlandsis a newkind of Europeanhistory, presentingthe mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes as two aspects of a singlestory.With a newafterword addressing the relevance of these events to the contemporary decline of democracy,Bloodlandsis required reading for anyoneseekingto understand the central tragedy of modern historyanditsmeaningtoday.
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin Reviews
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I began reading this book as a tool for gaining a better understanding of what is going on in the Ukraine. There is no understanding of Ukraine's current situation without understanding the cultural, social and criminal history laid out in this groundbreaking book. The key
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“Without history, the memories become private, which today means national; and the numbers become public, which is to say an instrument in the international competition for martyrdom.” One such number is 33,761. That is the number of Jews shot at Babi Yar, near
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"Deprived of its Jewish distinctiveness in the East, and stripped of its geography in the West, the Holocaust never quite became part of European history, even as Europeans and many others came to agree that all should remember the Holocaust" (Snyder 377). This
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True or not, Joseph Stalin is often credited with stating: “If only one man dies of hunger, that is a tragedy. If millions die, that’s only statistics.” That broadly applied quote certainly rings true when one factors how little value human life had in Eastern Europe
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Generally, BLOODLANDS is about the apocalyptic mayhem wrought by the Nazis and the Soviets in the lands that separated them (largely Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine) between 1932 and 1945. More specifically, it is about the deliberate murder of 14 million human beings as a
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Our book club chose this book and I'm glad they did. I would have never read it otherwise. The WWII era and beyond history of the region between Germany and Russia was presented in a detailed manner and works to correct much of the narrative that was popular about the
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This is an important book for Americans to read. We have a lot of romance surrounding World War II, for several reasons. First, the US and its allies won the war–in a relatively short period of time (Dec 1941 to August 1945). Second, it is the last war Americans can point
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Ukrainians themselves are constantly frustrated by the grasping nature and short term thinking of their leaders. Take what you can get all you can get it. The oligarchs steal everything in sight, by brute force, a corrupt government, and supremely corrupt courts. How did
