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Writings by Timothy Snyder

Snyder is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books and the New York Review of Books Blog and his book reviews are frequently featured in the Times Literary Supplement. They are also included in such academic serials as the Slavic Review, Historically Speaking, American Historical Review, Journal of Modern History, Journal of Cold War Studies, and the International History Review.

He has also written articles for Prospect, Transit, Die Presse, Christian Science Monitor, The Guardian, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, The New York Times, and The New Republic.

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Book Chapters

  • “Diaspora der Erinnerung,” in Isolde Charim and Gertraud Auer Borea, eds., Lebensmodell Diapora: Über moderne Nomaden, Bielefeld: transkript Verlag, 2012, 249-259.

  • Foreward to Jochen Böhler and Stephan Lehnstaedt, eds, Gewalt und Alltag im besetzten Polen 1939-1945, Osnabrück: fiber Verlag, 2012.

  • “European Mass Killing and European Commemoration,” in Vladimir Tismaneanu, ed., Remembrance, History and Justice, Budapest: CEU Press, (2012): 1-22.

  • “Rzecz o Tomaszu Mercie,” in Tom pamięci Tomasza Merty, Warsaw: Muzeum Historii Polski, 2011. Written in Polish.

  • “Etnos i racja stanu” [“Ethics and raison d’état”], in Kosciół, naród, państwo: Działalność Metropolity Andrzeja Szeptyckiego, Wrocław: Kolegium Europy Wschodniej, (2011): 199-207. Written in Polish.

  • “Antysemitizm komunistyczny i etyka uniwersalna: rozważania” [“Communist Anti-Semitism and Universal Ethics”], in Przebyta droga(Festschrift for Aleksander Smolar), Warsaw, (2010): 241-245.

  • “The Case for History after 1989,” in Julia Sherwood, ed., Whatever Happened to Democracy, Bratislava: Projekt Forum (2010): 70-76.

  • “Tadeusz Kościuszko (1746-1817): libérateur et penseur,” in L’héritage de la Res Publica des Deux Nations, Paris, Bibliotheque Polonaise de Paris, (2009) : 71-79. Written in French.

  • “The Possibility of a Common European History of Dictatorship,” in Gesellschaftliche Diskurse zum Umgang mit Diktaturgeschichte in Europa,Genshagen-Stiftung, 2009.

  • “The Life and Death of West Volhynian Jews, 1921-1945,” in Ray Brandon and Wendy Lower, eds., The Shoah in Ukraine:

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Times Literary Supplement

  • “Sleepwalking to War.” Times Literary Supplement, (19 July 2013)

  • “The News from Poland,” On Jan Karski, Story of a Secret State, and Andrzej Żbikowski, Karski, Times Literary Supplement, (25 November 2011): 7-9.

  • “History and Hunger,” on Steve Sem-Sandberg, The Emperor of Lies: London: Knopf, 2011, , Times Literary Supplement, (28 October 2011): 41-43.

  • “Speak our Language,” on John Hall, Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography: New York: Verso, 2011, Times Literary Supplement, (15 July 2011).

  • “European Romance,” on Thomas Kamusella, The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe, Times Literary Supplement, (26 February 2010): 10-11.

  • “Gun and Briefcase,” on the English edition of Jonathan Littell, Les Bienveillants (The Kindly Ones), London: Chatto and Windus, 2009. Times Literary Supplement, (6 March 2009).

  • “Nazism’s Dialectic of Death,” on Mark Mazower, Hitler’s Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe, London: Allen Unwin, 2008, in Times Literary Supplement, (14 August 2008). Ukrainian translation in Krytyka,(Kiev), 2009.

  • “At the Deep End,” on Abram Brumberg, Journeys Through Vanishing Worlds, London: Scarith, in Times Literary Supplement, (4 April 2008).

  • “Betrayed on All Sides,” on Jan Gross, Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz: An essay in Historical Interpretation, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006, Times Literary Supplement, (6 October 2006): 27.

  • “Revolution Without the Workers,” on David

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