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Timothy Snyder

Nascido: August 18, 1969 – Dayton, Ohio, United States

Timothy Snyder is an American historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust. His notable works include Bloodlands, On Tyranny, The Road to Unfreedom, and Black Earth. Snyder’s books have been published in over forty languages, earned major international prizes, and significantly shaped public understanding of authoritarianism and memory in modern history.

Biografia e Jornada do Autor

Timothy David Snyder, born in 1969 near Dayton, Ohio, emerged from a family with a deep commitment to education and activism—his parents were Peace Corps veterans and his mother was dedicated to historical preservation. Raised with a Quaker influence, Snyder attended Centerville High School before earning a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University, where he was drawn to European history. Awarded a Marshall Scholarship, he completed a D.Phil. in modern history at Oxford, focusing on Polish Marxism, and studied under the guidance of noted historians.

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Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so
-On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do
-On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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History does not repeat, but it does instruct
-On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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Life is political, not because the world cares about how you feel, but because the world reacts to what you do
-On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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The history of the Holocaust is not over. Its precedent is eternal, and its lessons have not yet been learned
-Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
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When states are absent, rights — by any definition — are impossible to sustain. States are not structures to be taken for granted, exploited, or discarded, but are fruits of long and quiet effort
-Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
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It is tempting to say that a Nazi murderer is beyond the pale of understanding. Yet to deny a human being his human character is to render ethics impossible. To yield to this temptation, to find other people inhuman, is to take a step toward, not away from, the Nazi position. To find other people incomprehensible is to abandon the search for understanding, and thus to abandon history
-Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
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History permits us to be responsible: not for everything, but for something... History gives us the company of those who have done and suffered more than we have
-On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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If you think democracy is some kind of inevitable, default setting for the world, then you aren't going to have it for very long
-TED Talk: Is Democracy Doomed? The Global Fight for Our Future
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Democracy isn't a thing you have — it's a thing you do
-TED Talk: Is Democracy Doomed? The Global Fight for Our Future

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"Timothy Snyder is an American historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust"

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"Timothy Snyder has written many books, including Bloodlands, Black Earth, On Tyranny, and The Road to Unfreedom"

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Council on Foreign Relations

"Timothy Snyder is a scholar of Central Europe, Ukraine, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust who speaks five and reads ten European languages"

Munk School of Global Affairs

"Timothy Snyder is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna"

Yale University

"Critically acclaimed historian Timothy Snyder frames a searing critique of the American health-care system around his own medical emergency"

Publishers Weekly

"Timothy Snyder’s work has appeared in forty languages and has received a number of prizes, including the Emerson Prize in the Humanities"

Foundation for Jewish Heritage

"Timothy Snyder’s book On Tyranny topped The New York Times Best Seller list for paperback nonfiction in 2017"

The New York Times

"Timothy Snyder has contributed essays to publications including Foreign Affairs, The New York Review of Books, and The Nation"

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"Yale historian Snyder follows up On Tyranny with a more soporific rumination on how freedom can be maintained"

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