• Timothy Snyder On tyranny

  twenty lessons from the twentieth century

  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...

  Engels | 126 pagina's | The Bodley Head, London | 2017

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