The Road to Unfreedom
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With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy was thought to be absolute. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. But we now know this to be premature.
Authoritarianism first returned in Russia, as Putin developed a political system dedicated solely to the consolidation and exercise of power. In the last six years, it has creeped from east to west as nationalism inflames Europe, abetted by Russian propaganda and cyberwarfare. While countries like Poland and Hungary have made hard turns toward authoritarianism, the electoral upsets of 2016 revealed the citizens of the US and UK in revolt against their countries’ longstanding policies and values.
But this threat to the West also presents the opportunity to better understand the pillars of our own political order. In this forceful and unsparing work of contemporary history, Snyder goes beyond the headlines to expose the true nature of the threat to democracy. By showcasing the stark choices before us - between equality or oligarchy, individuality or totality, truth and falsehood - Snyder restores our understanding of the basis of our way of life, offering a way forward in a time of terrible uncertainty.
©2018 Timothy Snyder (P)2018 Random House Audio
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"Combining topical reporting with delvings into the history of ideas and some political-philosophical musing in the author’s own voice, this relatively short book covers a vast canvas.... A roller-coaster world calls for a news editor's skill in processing facts and a philosopher's ability to dissect ideologies. Snyder has both." (The Economist)
"The Road to Unfreedom offers a brief, potent and carefully documented history of Vladimir Putin's consolidation of power in Russia, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election." (Chicago Tribune)
“We are living in dangerous times, Timothy Snyder argues forcefully and eloquently in his new book.... To understand Putin, Snyder argues persuasively, you must understand his ideas.... The Road to Unfreedom is a good wake-up call.” (Margaret MacMillan, The New York Times Book Review)
- A New York Times Editors' Choice
- Shortlisted for the 2019 Lionel Gelber Prize
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Gesamt4 out of 5 stars
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Sprecher5 out of 5 stars
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Geschichte4 out of 5 stars
- Henrik
- 23.02.2023
Insightful on Russia and Europe, conventional on USA.
I’ve also read Bloodlands and Black Earth by Snyder and found his interpretations, depth of knowledge and perspectives stimulating and seductive. As a European, who knows several European languages, I found also found refreshing insights on European matters. When it comes to Russia, I don’t know any Slavic languages, so I’m easy to impress and convince. His portrayal of the American scene though was somehow disappointing. His analysis was basically just an American liberal, he seemed to me to have too little distance. His analysis seemed pretty conventional when he turned his gaze to the American shores. He has a concept about politics of eternity, that is characterised among other things by a feeling of innocence. In the end, I also got an eerie feeling that he had a strong belief and feeling of innocence and moral superiority for his own side.
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Gesamt5 out of 5 stars
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- B. Sautter
- 26.02.2023
Excellent Analysis
Demicracies die all over the free World, but this does not just happen: they are actively destroyed. Timothy Snyder explains who and why and we should well damn listen!
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Gesamt5 out of 5 stars
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- Hans-Joachim Bobsin
- 24.05.2021
Essential!
this should be required reading for every person in the eastern and western world. Great book!
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Gesamt5 out of 5 stars
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- Anonymer Hörer
- 16.04.2018
One of the very important books of our days
Timothy Snyder tells in a breathless summary all the incredible events directed from Russian leaders, Putin’s (cyber- and real) warriors how our civilized democratic world is under attack since more than a decade, and we even don’t notice it. And he puts our time into a context of long time ago history, as well as the younger history of the 1930s/1940s in Europe and Russia. He introduces his very interesting approaches of “politics of inevitability” (Europe of today) coming before “politics of eternity” (Russian dictatorships of the 1920s,until Today...)
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Gesamt4 out of 5 stars
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- Christopher
- 10.07.2018
Great book, sometimes a bit far fetched
Detailed and thorough, thou sometimes a bit far fetched in conclusions. Still a must read
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Gesamt2 out of 5 stars
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- Hendrik
- 22.01.2023
Misleading advertisement & unsatisfactory analysis
My thoughts (short review below):
I have listened to my far share of political/historical analysis, more easy works like Why Nations Fail but also much more specific ones like Guns, Germs and Steel. The wholistic approach was always interesting to me. I assumed, this would do something similar, broad, but still with a more tight, contemporary focus, and for the first 1/4 it seemed to be just that. (and which the blurb seemed to advertise.)
It starts with a kind of history of Russia, and the theories expressed were somewhat interesting. But I was already a bit irritated by the sudden introductions of models, that were hugely important for the premises made, but hardly discussed within the work.
The "National Fable" for example. A nation doesn't exist as a homogenous, "real" thing. Sure. That was basically used as a complete destruction of the concept of the "Wise Nation", a nation as a learning super-organism. Well, it does certainly blur the borders, and requires us to define the "storage medium", for the supposed political experience. But it doesn't outright dismiss it, which is more or less the way it was treated in the book. Very disappointed, as it is a very interesting topic, and quite a consequential one at that.
This would have been not too bad, but the book devolves into a very much headline driven affair in the later half, and while I am a foreigner, who has watched from the outside, I have looked into some headlines for dinner table discussions, and found multiple instances, in which a misleading story was echoed in this book, mostly around the (infamous) figure Trump.
This is more about framing, than outright false information, but it makes me question the objectiveness of the author; Trump is an unpleasant figure by any stretch, but the "cheap shots" only scratch at the credibility of the analysis.
Overall, Trump seems to dominate the mind of the author of the book, with Putin being strangely secondary. While Putin is the only figure in the narrative to have much agency and influence, Trump still brings out a passionate scorn out of the writer, which is at times distracting, considering the comparatively small role in the described power game. While the Russian influence is certainly worrying, the extent of the implicated power in the book is extremely alarmist, Putin's limits and Western options are barely even considered.
In short:
The book alludes to interesting concepts and has put together a lot of facts to prop up the theory, Putin is the mastermind that controls the totalitarian movement inside the fracturing West, but often fails to compare or consider alternatives and the theories remain illusive (and might rely on the author's previous works).
If you have no concept of Russia's involvement in Western politics, it will certainly open eyes, but you would be "woken up", not "Informed", as the analysis is too thin and leading.
If you hate Trump with a passion, you may have some fun with the mean spirited view on the unfortunate businessman (which may be put in quotations); if not, you probably be irritated by the shift in tone, at least if you are used to rather "dry" literature in this genre.
An overall frustrating experience with little to take away from it, for anyone who follow the headlines of the last decade.
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