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:
Book Reviews
“A Journey Through Time and Autobiography in Search of Romania.” Washington Post – April 8, 2016.
“Antony Beevor’s Ardennes 1944,” The Guardian – May 20, 2015
“Memoirs of the Murdered,” Wall Street Journal – April 24, 2015
“Were we all people?” review of Witold Pilecki, The Auschwitz Volunteer, The New York Times, (24 June 2012).
“Their Sense of Belonging,” review of volumes 1, 2, and 3 of Antony Polonsky, The Jews of Poland and Russia, The Wall Street Journal, (19 May 2012).
“On Their Stomachs,” Review of Lizzie Collingham, The Taste of War, New York Times, (6 May 2012).
“Savagery,” review of Paul Preston, The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain, New York: Norton, 2012, The New Republic, (30 March 2012).
“War no More,” Review of Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why War Has Declined, New York: Viking, 2011, Foreign Affairs 91, no. 1 (2012): 153-159.
“Vanished Kingdoms by Norman Davies – review” Guardian (18 November 2011).
“An Ordinary Man,” review of Robert Gerwarth, Hitler’s Hangman: A Biography of Reinhard Heydrich, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011, Wall Street Journal, (5 November 2011).
“Cruelty and Collapse,” review of Ian Kershaw, The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Nazi Germany, New York: Penguin, 2011, in The
Scholarly Articles
“Das Bild ist größer, als man denkt. Eine Antwort auf manche Kritiken an Bloodlands,” Journal of Modern European History 11, no. 1, (2013): 1-22.
“L’Europe centrale prise entre deux terreurs,” L’Esprit, (February 2013): 48-55.
“The Causes of the Holocaust,” Contemporary European History 21, no. 02, (2012): 149-168.
“Pra pakhozhanne natsii Uskhodniai Europi” [“On the origins of the nations of Eastern Europe”], Belaruski Histarychny Ahliad [Belarusian Historical Review] 17, nos. 1-2, (2010 [2012]).
“The Problem of Commemorative Causality in the Holocaust,” Modernism/Modernity, (January 2013).
“Holocaust History: An Agenda for Renewal,” Lessons and Legacies, (2010)
“East European History: The State of the Field,” East European Politics and Societies 25, no. 4, (2011): 749-762, with Norman Naimark.
“Collaboration in the Bloodlands,” Journal of Genocide Research, (September 2011).
“Galicia (XVIII-XX Century): A Laboratory for European History?” Il Mestiere di Storico (Annale SISSCO) 1, (2009): 31-36.
“The Ethical Significance of Eastern Europe, Twenty Years On,” East European Politics and Societies 22, 1 (Autumn 2009).
“The Incomprehensible History of Eastern Europe,” (Obca i niezrozumiała historia Europy Wschodniej), Nowa Europa Wschodnia 1, no. 1, (2008): 56-64.
“Forum: The Second World War as a Challenge for Ukrainian Historiography” (“Druha svitova viina iak vyklyk dlia ukrainskoi historiohrafii”), Ukraina moderna 13, no. 2, (2008): 13-14.
Newspaper Articles
Black Earth
Slate Fr.: “La Vrai Mise en Garde de la Shoah.” – October 17, 2015.
Tablet: “The Ghetto is Here.” – October 12, 2015.
El País: “Las lecciones del Holocausto.” – October 11, 2015.
Slate: “The Banality of Good: Why People who Rescued Jews During WWll Found it so Difficult to Explain Their Motives.” – October 8, 2015.
Le Monde: “Le prochain génocide sera écologique.” – October 4, 2015.
Salon: “So Much Worse than Auschwitz: ‘People Not Very Different From Us Murdered Other People Not Very Different From Us at Close Quarters.’” – October 3, 2015.
Slate: “History’s True Warning: How Our Misunderstanding of the Holocaust Offers Moral Cover For the Geopolitical Disasters of Our Time.” – September 23, 2015.
Newsweek: “Ongoing Genocide: The Lessons of the Holocaust and the Fate of the Yazidi.” -September 21, 2015.
Guardian: “Hitler’s World May Not Be So Far Away.” – September 16, 2015.
Boston Globe: “Warnings from Another Refugee Crisis.” – September 14, 2015
New York Times: “The Next Genocide.” – September 12, 2015
Other
“Eric Hobsbawm,” CNN – October 1, 2012
“Keeping our Heads,” The New Republic – August 24, 2012
“Granice historii narodowych” [“The Limits of National History”] Tygodnik Powszechny – May 22, 2012
“The Overwhelming Realism of ‘In Darkness,’” New Yorker Culture Desk
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
