Timothy David Snyder
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About Timothy
Snyder is one of the leading American historians and public intellectuals; and enjoys perhaps greater prominence in Europe; as he specializes in the history of Central and Eastern Europe; and the Holocaust. He is a member of the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; is the faculty advisor for the Fortunoff Collection of Holocaust Testimonies at Yale; and sits on the advisory councils of the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research and other organizations.
Contributions
Twenty Lessons on Fighting Tyranny from the Twentieth Century
No Jargon Podcast
In the News
Publications
Presents 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.
Argues that the political order of today faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. Explains that we are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism, but that our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience.