On tyranny twenty lessons from the twentieth century Timothy Snyder

By:

Snyder, Timothy, 1969- [VerfasserIn]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publisher: London The Bodley Head 2017Description: 126 SeitenContent type:

Text

Media type:

ohne Hilfsmittel zu benutzen

Carrier type:

Band

ISBN:

9781847924889
9781432888831

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

321.9 23

LOC classification:

JC495

Other classification:

ME 2600
NQ 2480
MD 8980
NQ 1050
89.36

Summary: 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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
single unit book	HAC Library - Holdings of the American Academy in Berlin HAC – Attic – Duplicates' Stacks	F (Affiliated)	F:JC495 .S55 2023 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	Hardcover		2024-0045
single unit book	HAC Library - Holdings of the American Academy in Berlin HAC – 1st floor – Library Room – Open Stacks	F (Affiliated)	F:JC495 .S55 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available			2023-0852

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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On tyranny twenty lessons from the twentieth century Timothy Snyder