Timothy Snyder

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  3/30/2023
  

  From Trump to Putin: How People Came to Look to Timothy Snyder for Predictions

  Although some had dismissed his warnings of an autocratic seizure of power as "doomerism," the events of January 6 and the Russian invasion have made the historian a widely-read public intellectual. 

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• SOURCE: BoingBoing
  1/7/2022
  

  Timothy Snyder's Dire Speculations on the Next Trumpist Coup

  The worst-case scenario for 2024 is pretty bad, according to the Yale historian of European fascism.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  5-9-18
  

  Yale’s Timothy Snyder is out with a new book

  Once again he warns we are living in dangerous times.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  5-3-18
  

  The Leftwing magazine, "The Nation," claims Timothy Snyder’s latest book is the apotheosis of liberal paranoia about Russia

  by Sophie Pinkham

  "For Snyder, Russia is to blame for the growth of the “birther” conspiracy theory about Barack Obama, stoking the Scottish independence referendum, Brexit, the rise of the far right in various European countries, and the Syrian refugee crisis.”

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• SOURCE: Vox
  4-5-18
  

  Yale’s Timothy Snyder says Russia pioneered “fake news”

  And then used it to sow chaos in America.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  5-1-17
  

  Historian Timothy Snyder: “It’s pretty much inevitable” that Trump will try to stage a coup and overthrow democracy

  Yale historian and author of the new book "On Tyranny" says we may have one year left to save American democracy.

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• SOURCE: Raw Story
  3-24-17
  

  Yale’s Timothy Snyder explains to Bill Maher how Trump resembles 1930s fascists — and makes the Russia connection

  Snyder told Maher Americans must defend institutions. Many anticipate that “the institution will save us” but Snyder said that this kind of thinking is wrong. “We have to save the institutions."

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• SOURCE: Slate
  3-7-17
  

  Yale’s Timothy Snyder has a warning for us: Fascism can happen here, too

  by Isaac Chotiner

  It was his friends in Russia and other despotic countries who thought that Trump could win. To them he seemed like a familiar figure.

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• SOURCE: Quartz
  1-28-17
  

  Yale’s Timothy Snyder has a 20-point guide for surviving the Trump years

  Tip # 1: Do not obey in advance.

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• SOURCE: Facebook
  11-15-16
  

  Liberals are reposting Yale’s Timothy Snyder’s lessons on dealing with authoritarians

  by Timothy Snyder

  "Here are twenty lessons from the twentieth century, adapted to the circumstances of today."

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• SOURCE: Radio Free Europe
  9-29-16
  

  Historian Timothy Snyder: Babi Yar A Tragedy For All Ukrainians

  We need to remember what happened “because memory is not just about history, it is about the future."

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• SOURCE: Mosaic
  11-4-15
  

  Timothy Snyder taken to task by Walter Laqueur

  by Walter Laqueur

  The Yale historian’s much-lauded new book promises a revolutionary view of the Holocaust. But it misleads more than it enlightens.

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• SOURCE: Radio Free Europe
  6-22-15
  

  Yale University historian Timothy Snyder has become one of the unexpected "celebrities" of the conflict in Ukraine

  East and West are fighting Ukraine with different assumptions about the nation state, says Snyder. Russia still believes strong nations should dominate weak ones.

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• SOURCE: KyivPost
  5-15-14
  

  Timothy Snyder lecture kicks off 'Ukraine:Thinking Together' conference

  Snyder stressed that Ukraine has a “very typical European history,” noting its Renaissance, Reformation, and counter-reformation during the rule of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.