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In On Tyranny, a short guide to 20 different strategies that citizens can use to defend democracy against an authoritarian government, historian Timothy Snyder looks to 20th-century Europe in an effort to help 21st-century Americans cope with Donald Trump ’s presidency.
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On Tyranny, by Timothy Snyder, PhD, describes how tyrants have dismantled 20th-century republics and replaced them with totalitarian regimes, and how threats to democracies still exist today, including in America.
- Prologue
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
Concerned about potential loopholes in the democratic template they werebuilding, the founders of the United States turned to ancient Greek and Romanphilosophy as they devised checks and balances. According to Snyder, the makersof the United States Constitution shared with Plato and Aristotle a fear thatdemocracy might be subverted by oligarchy—tha...
Snyder’s first lesson is about the role anticipatory obedience plays in therise of tyranny. Exhorting the reader not to “obey in advance,” Snyder notesthat when people begin to capitulate to tyrants bloodlessly, like when Germancitizens eagerly supported Adolf Hitler’s newly elected government, “politicaltragedy”strikes. Snyder highlights the 1938 ...
According to Snyder, people must fight to defend what they call “ourinstitutions.” Assuming that democratic institutions, such as courts,newspapers, and labor unions will automatically act as vanguards againstfascism is a fatal mistake, as the example of Germany shows. As late as 1933,German newspapers were publishing editorials that displayed a na...
Nov 3, 2023 · On Tyranny is a 2017 book by historian Timothy Snyder about the threat authoritarianism poses to democracy and the possible defenses against it. The book’s occasion is the...
Feb 17, 2017 · In On Tyranny, Snyder focuses particularly on Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, two of the most extreme and murderous authoritarian regimes in history. He specifically focuses on the early period of Nazi rule, when Hitler was elected to power and then began consolidating his rule by undermining Germany’s democratic institutions, its citizens ...
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century is a 2017 book by Timothy Snyder, a historian of 20th-century Europe. The book was published by Tim Duggan Books in hardcover and by Penguin Random House in paperback. A graphic version, illustrated by Nora Krug, was released October 5, 2021.
Apr 28, 2022 · On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder. In George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel 1984, “thought crime”—a person’s politically unorthodox thoughts, such as unspoken beliefs and doubts that contradict the tenets of the ruling party—is an even more serious offense than committing an actual crime.
