Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

Bloodlands by Yale University Professor of History Timothy Snyder 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 Stalins both held power."[A] brave and original history of mass killing in the twentieth century. Snyder’s original contribution is to treat all of these episodes—the Ukrainian famine, the Holocaust, Stalins’ mass executions, the planned starvation of Soviet POWs, postwar ethnic cleansing—as different facets of the same phenomenon. Instead of studying Nazi atrocities or Soviet atrocities separately, as many others have done, he looks at them together. Yet Snyder does not exactly compare the two systems either. His intention, rather, is to show that the two systems committed the same kinds of crimes at the same times and in the same places, that they aided and abetted one another, and above all that their interaction with one another led to more mass killing than either might have carried out alone."
— Anne Applebaum, New York Review of Books

"How Stalins and Hitler enabled each other’s crimes and killed 14 million people between the Baltic and the Black Sea.
A lifetime’s work by a Yale University historian who deserves to be read and reread."
— The Economist, Books of the Year (2010)© 2010 by Timothy Snyder
Published by Basic Books, a Member of Perseus Books

ISBN-10: 0465002390
ISBN-13: 978-0465002399 |
Publication Date: October 12, 2010 | Edition: 1
Hardcover, Book Dimensions 9.5 x 6.4 x 1.7 inches