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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century is a 2017 book by Timothy Snyder, a historian of 20th-century Europe. The book was published by Tim Duggan Books in hardcover and by Penguin Random House in paperback. [1] A graphic version, illustrated by Nora Krug, was released October 5, 2021. [2]
In an October 30, 2024 piece On Tyranny Right Now, Snyder elaborates additional lessons for the 21st century from On Tyranny including text from the 2017 book along with new reflections. Beware the one-party state. [From On Tyranny] The parties that remade states and suppressed rivals were not omnipotent from the start. They exploited the ...
The concepts of tyranny and despotism as distinct modes of government were abandoned in the 19th century in favor of more specific typologies. [108] Modern typology of autocratic regimes originates from the work of Juan Linz in the mid-20th century, when his division of democracy, authoritarianism, and totalitarianism became accepted. [81]
Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Central Europe: A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz is a 1998 book by Timothy Snyder.It is a biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz with commentary by Snyder on a number of wider issues, including nationalism.
Opinion: Republicans have laid out an explicit path to autocracy if Donald Trump becomes president; democracy is at stake, writes Steve Corbin.
The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569–1999 is a 2003 book by Timothy Snyder and published by the Yale University Press.It focuses on the last few hundred years of history of several Central and Eastern European countries; in particular, states descended from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, once the largest state of early modern Europe: Poland, Ukraine ...
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According to Encyclopedia Britannica, the Soviet Union during the period of Joseph Stalin's rule was a "modern example" of a totalitarian state, being among "the first examples of decentralized or popular totalitarianism, in which the state achieved overwhelming popular support for its leadership."