Timothy Snyder

Bloodlands (eBook, ePUB)

THE book to help you understand today's Eastern Europe

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'A superb work of scholarship, full of riveting detail' Sunday Times

A powerful and revelatory history book about the bloodlands - the lands that lie between Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany - where 14 million people were killed during the years 1933 - 1944.

In the middle of Europe, in the middle of the twentieth century, the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered fourteen million people in the bloodlands between Berlin and Moscow.

In a twelve-year-period, in these killing fields - today's Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Western Russia and the eastern Baltic coast - an average of more than one million citizens were slaughtered every year, due to deliberate policies unrelated to combat.

Here, Timothy Snyder offers a ground-breaking investigation into the motives and methods of Stalin and Hitler. Using scholarly literature and primary sources, he pays special attention to the testimony of the victims, including the letters home, the notes flung from trains, the diaries on corpses.

Bloodlands is a brilliantly researched, profoundly humane, authoritative and original book that forces us to re-examine one of the greatest tragedies in European history and re-think our past.

'An original, wonderful and horrifying book... beautifully written and superbly researched' Anthony Beevor

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK Ltd
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781407075501
• Artikelnr.: 39214764

Autorenporträt

'When Timothy Snyder's book Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin was published in 2010, it quickly established its author as one of the leading historians of his generation, a scholar who combined formidable linguistic skills - he reads or speaks 11 languages - with an elegant literary style, white-hot moral passion and a willingness to start arguments about some of the most fraught questions of the recent past.' New York Times

Timothy Snyder is Levin Professor of History at Yale University, and has written and edited a number of critically acclaimed and prize-winning books about twentieth-century European history: Bloodlands won the Hannah Arendt Prize, the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding, the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award in the Humanities and the literature award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Black Earth was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize.

Snyder is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement. He is a member of the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, a permanent fellow of the Institute for Human Sciences, and sits on the advisory council of the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research.

Inhaltsangabe

1.
* i: Preface: Europe
2. INTRODUCTION: HITLER AND STALIN
3. 1: THE SOVIET FAMINES
4. 2: CLASS TERROR
5. 3: NATIONAL TERROR
6. 4: MOLOTOV-RIBBENTROP EUROPE
7. 5: THE ECONOMICS OF APOCALYPSE
8. 6: FINAL SOLUTION
9. 7: HOLOCAUST AND REVENGE
10. 8: THE NAZI DEATH FACTORIES
11. 9: RESISTANCE AND INCINERATION
12. 10: ETHNIC CLEANSINGS
13. 11: STALINIST ANTI-SEMITISM
14. CONCLUSION: HUMANITY
15.
* ii: Numbers and Terms
* iii: Abstract
* iv: Acknowledgments
* v: Bibliography
* vi: Notes
* vii: Index

Rezensionen

Süddeutsche Zeitung | Besprechung von 05.03.2013

NEUE TASCHENBÜCHER
Terror und
Vernichtung
In Amerika wurde Timothy Snyders „Bloodlands“ gefeiert, die Historiker hierzulande zeigten sich bei Erscheinen der deutschen Ausgabe vor zwei Jahren verhaltener. Stilistisch brillant, so die Kritik, lässt die Monografie über die 14 Millionen Menschen, die von 1933 bis 1945 Stalins Terror sowie der NS-Vernichtungspolitik im Gebiet von Zentralpolen bis Westrussland zum Opfer fielen, jedoch viele Fragen offen. Etwa die, in welchem Zusammenhang die Massenmorde der beiden Regime zueinander stünden. Historische Fachdebatten, bei denen sicher noch der „Historikerstreit“ nachwirkt, mal beiseitegelassen: „Bloodlands“, ausgezeichnet mit dem Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung, sollte jeder lesen, der das „Zeitalter der Extreme“ (Hobsbawm) verstehen will. Auf der Basis jeder Menge statistischen Materials bemüht sich Snyder, die Opfer – Frauen, Kinder, Alte, Kriegsgefangene – sprechen zu lassen. Eine von ihnen, die Minsker Jüdin Junita Wischnjatskaja, schrieb vor ihrer Erschießung in einem Abschiedsbrief: „Ich habe solche Angst vor diesem Tod, denn die kleinen Kinder werden lebend in die Grube geworfen. Auf Wiedersehen für immer.“
FLORIAN WELLE
  
Timothy Snyder:
Bloodlands. Europa zwischen Hitler und Stalin. dtv, München 2013. 524 Seiten,
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A hugely important historian of this nightmarish era. Nobody has explained it this way before William Leith Evening Standard