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On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder

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Book name: On Tyranny (2024)
Category: Authoritarianism
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Pages: 150 pages
Language: English
Publication data: Jan. 1, 2017, midnight
This book provides a concise and powerful examination of the rise of tyranny in the 20th century and offers practical advice for resisting authoritarianism in the modern era. Drawing on historical examples, it outlines twenty lessons that individuals can follow to safeguard democratic institutions and personal freedoms. The author emphasizes the importance of critical thinking, active participation in civic life, and the defense of truth and facts as essential strategies to prevent the erosion of democracy and the rise of oppressive regimes. The 7351st greatest book of all time

About the author

Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder

3 books

Timothy Snyder is Housum Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1997, where he was a British Marshall Scholar. He has held fellowships in Paris, Vienna, and Warsaw, and an Academy Scholarship at Harvard.

His most recent book is Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning, published in September 2015 by Crown Books. He is author also of Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler a… Read more