Bloodlands

Americans call the Second World War The Good War But before it even began, America s wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens and kept killing them during and after the war Before Hitler was finally defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans At war s end, both the German and the Soviet killing sites fell behind the iron curtain, leaving the history of mass killing in darkness.Bloodlands is a new kind of European history, presenting the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes as two aspects of a single history, in the time and place where they occurred between Germany and Russia, when Hitler and Stalin both held power Assiduously researched, deeply humane, and utterly definitive, Bloodlands will be required reading for anyone seeking to understand the central tragedy of modern history.From BooklistIf there is an explanation for the political killing perpetrated in eastern Europe in the 1930s and 1940s, historian Snyder roots it in agriculture Stalin wanted to collectivize farmers Hitler wanted to eliminate them so Germans could colonize the land The dictators wielded frightening power to advance such fantasies toward reality, and the despots toted up about 14 million corpses between them, so stupefying a figure that Snyder sets himself three goals here to break down the number into the various actions of murder that comprise it, from liquidation of the kulaks to the final solution to restore humanity to the victims via surviving testimony to their fates and to deny Hitler and Stalin any historical justification for their policies, which at the time had legions of supporters and have some even today Such scope may render Snyder s project too imposing to casual readers, but it would engage those exposed to the period s chronology and major interpretive issues, such as the extent to which the Nazi and Soviet systems may be compared Solid and judicious scholarship for large WWII collections. Download Bloodlands Author Timothy Snyder – kino-fada.fr I was raised amongst survivors of the great horror that was the War in Eastern Europe My mother endured forced labour under the Soviets in 1940 and slave labour under the Nazis after 1941 She saw some of her family being deported by the Soviets to almost certain death in Kazakhstan and discovered the rest in a mass grave, shot by the Nazis Her best friend survived Ausc...Man Oh, man.This book is without a doubt the most depressing thing I ve ever read If there was ever a time and place that demonstrated man s inhumanity to man, it would be the Bloodlands, the areas of Eastern Europe squashed flat two or three times by Hitler and Stalin The author s accounts of casual starvation, brutal repression, and mass murder were horrifying not just because they happened, but because both victims and perpetrators were everyday, normal people.This is why you read the ep Man Oh, man.This book is without a doubt the most depressing thing I ve ever read If there was ever a time and place that demonstrated man s inhumanity to man, it would be the Bloodlands, the areas of Eastern Europe squashed flat two or three times by Hitler and Stalin The author s accounts of casual starvation, brutal repression, and mass murder were horrifying not just because they happened, but because both victims and perpetrators were everyday, normal people.This is why you read the epilogue in any ...First, there are numbers 13,788 at Polesie23,600 at Kamiamets Podilskyi3,739 prisoners at Starobilsk358, one night at Palmiry Forest2,500 at Leningrad by October, 19415,500 by November50,500 by December1,000,000 by the end of the Leningrad siege80,000 at Stalag 30760,000 at Stalag 31955,000 at Stalag 32523,000 at Stalag 316500,000 Soviet prisoners in the General Government450, one night at Krzesawice12,000 at Dnipropetrovsk386,798 kulaks33,761 at Babi Yar14 million in all.Not soldiers in battle First, there are numbers 13,788 at Polesie23,600 at Kamiamets Podilskyi3,739 prisoners at Starobilsk358, one night at Palmiry Forest2,500 at Leningrad by October, 19415,500 by November50,500 by December1,000,000 by the end of the Leningrad siege80,000 at Stalag 30760,000 at Stalag 31955,000 at Stalag 32523,000 at Stalag 316500,000 Soviet prisoners in the General Government450, one night at Krzesawi...History As Intention and ResponseHistory can be told in several ways as a textbook like sequence of events and dates as a moral tale as a story of the strong or of the weak from the point of view of the victors or the vanquished as an account of divine providence or satanic interference Snyder has a particularly engaging method of narrating history as intention and response to circumstances According to his title one could conceive his subject as the history of a specific geographical re History As Intention and ResponseHistory can be told in several ways as a textbook like sequence of events and dates as a moral tale as a story of the strong or of the weak from the point of view of the victors or the vanquished as an account of divine providence or satanic interference Snyder has a particularly engaging method of narrating history as intention and response to circumstances According to his title one could conceive his subject as the history of a specific geographical region, namely Eastern Poland, Ukraine and Belarus But this is merely the location of the action The real history in Bloodlands is stated in the subtitle, namely the personal intentions of Hitler and Stalin and how these intentions were formed and interacted Events in Bloodlands are relevant...Timothy Snyder s Bloodlands is about the worst place that ever existed in the world that unfortunate slice of Europe ruled by the two evilest people who ever inhabited our earth Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin Imagine a Venn diagram of evil The left west loop is Hitler the right east loop in Stalin And in the middle, where the two circles overlap, is the bloodlands, extending from central Poland to western Russia, through Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltic States From 1933 to 1945, 14 Timothy Snyder s Bloodlands is about the worst place that ever existed in the world that unfortunate slice of Europe ruled by the two evilest people who ever inhabited our earth Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin Imagine a Venn diagram of evil The left west loop is Hitler the right east loop in Stalin And in the middle, where the two circles overlap, is the bloodlands, extending from central Poland to western Russia, through Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltic States From 1933 to 1945, 14 million people died in this ill fated ...This is history that deserves to be read, if for no other reason, to acknowledge the individual lives of so many innocent people deliberately murdered We re not talking war casualties or so called collateral wartime deaths We re talking civilians sentenced to death by deliberate national policy Sometimes they were targeted because of national, political, or ethnic reasons Sometimes they w...The history told in Timothy Snyder s Bloodlands Europe Between Hitler and Stalin is not a revelation Readers familiar with the works of Robert Conquest, Daniel Goldhagen, Anne Applebaum, or Halik Kochanski have read it all before Snyder presents it with a new perspective, concentrating on the plight of the minority peoples caught between the two ideological empires of the mid twentieth century Ukrainians, Belorussians, Balts, Roma, Russians, Germans, Poles, Jews all pawns of Hitler and St The history told in Timothy Snyder s Bloodlands ...Bloodlands The poor beknighted ribbon of land caught between Hitler and Stalin, monstrous merciless dictators, with their absolutist ideologies and willing apparatchiks Comprising the Baltic states, Poland, Belorussia and Ukraine, fourteen million of whose civilian inhabitants died as a result of deliberate policies of extermination or neglect It started even before the Second World War, with three million Ukrainians starved so that Stalin could claim victory in his collectivisaton drive Man Bloodlands The poor beknighted ribbon of land caught between Hitler and Stalin, monstrous merciless dictators, with their absolutist ideologies and willing apparatchiks Comprising the Baltic states, Poland, Beloru...Having read hundreds of books on World War II, it s pretty rare to come across a book which covers a topic I m not very familiar with However, the subject of the Holocaust is one which I ve avoided mostly because it s just too damn depressing, and while this book covers a broader topic it s probably one I would have skipped in the past I m glad I didn t skip this one.The author defines the Bloodlands as the lands between pre war Nazi Germany and the western edge of the Russian Republic, predom Having read hundreds of books on World War II, it s pretty rare to come across a book which covers a topic I m not very familiar with However, the subjec...Reading this book is a painful experience, and when it s not painful it s even worse because you realize you ve become desensitized by statistics, the sheer number of deaths Starting with the planned famine in Ukraine, and then each subsequent chapter gets I won t say worse it s maybe a little vulgar to try and quantify these things Each subsequent chapter details something horrific enough to defy belief, and the scale of killing keeps increasing even though what Stalin did to Ukraine wa Reading this book is a painful experience, and when it s not painful it s even worse because you realize you ve beco...

• English
• 03 June 2017
Timothy Snyder
• Hardcover
• 524 pages
• 0465002390
• Timothy Snyder
• Bloodlands