Bloodlands Europe between Hitler and Stalin
By: Snyder, Timothy
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BookPublisher: New York : Basic Books , 2022Description: 547 pages.ISBN: 9781541600065; 9781541600065; 9781541600065.Subject(s): Stalin, Joseph | Genocide -- Eastern Europe -- History -- 20th Century -- Stalin -- Hitler | Massacres -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) | World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities | Atrocities | Genocide | Massacres | History | Europe, Eastern -- History -- 1918-1945 | Soviet Union -- History -- 1917-1936 | Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 | Eastern Europe | Germany | Soviet UnionDDC classification: 940.54 Summary: Hitler and Stalin -- The Soviet famines -- Class terror -- National terror -- Molotov-Ribbentrop Europe -- The economics of apocalypse -- Final solution -- Holocaust and revenge -- The Nazi death factories -- Resistance and incineration -- Ethnic cleansings -- Stalinist anti-semitism -- Humanity.Summary: Americans call the Second World War "the Good War." But before it even began, America's ally Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens--and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. At war's end, German and Soviet killing sites fell behind the Iron Curtain, leaving the history of mass killing in darkness. Assiduously researched, deeply humane, and utterly definitive, 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 story. With a new afterword addressing the relevance of these events to the contemporary decline of democracy, Bloodlands is required reading for anyone seeking to understand the central tragedy of modern history and its meaning today
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"Updated with a new afterword"--Cover
Hardcover first published in 2010; paperback first published in 2012
Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-482) and index
Hitler and Stalin -- The Soviet famines -- Class terror -- National terror -- Molotov-Ribbentrop Europe -- The economics of apocalypse -- Final solution -- Holocaust and revenge -- The Nazi death factories -- Resistance and incineration -- Ethnic cleansings -- Stalinist anti-semitism -- Humanity.
Americans call the Second World War "the Good War." But before it even began, America's ally Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens--and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. At war's end, German and Soviet killing sites fell behind the Iron Curtain, leaving the history of mass killing in darkness. Assiduously researched, deeply humane, and utterly definitive, 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 story. With a new afterword addressing the relevance of these events to the contemporary decline of democracy, Bloodlands is required reading for anyone seeking to understand the central tragedy of modern history and its meaning today
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