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BLOODLANDS
Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

BLOODLANDS <br>Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

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Author:   Timothy Snyder
ISBN:   978-04-6503-147-4
Language:   English
Publisher:   Basic Books
Availability:   2-3 days
Year Published:   2010
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"If there is an explanation for the political killing perpetrated in eastern Europe in the 1930s and 1940s, historian Snyder roots it in agriculture. Stalin wanted to collectivize farmers; Hitler wanted to eliminate them so Germans could colonize the land. The dictators wielded frightening power to advance such fantasies toward reality, and the despots toted up about 14 million corpses between them, so stupefying a figure that Snyder sets himself three goals here: to break down the number into the various actions of murder that comprise it, from liquidation of the kulaks to the final solution; to restore humanity to the victims via surviving testimony to their fates; and to deny Hitler and Stalin any historical justification for their policies, which at the time had legions of supporters and have some even today. Such scope may render Snyder’s project too imposing to casual readers, but it would engage those exposed to the period’s chronology and major interpretive issues, such as the extent to which the Nazi and Soviet systems may be compared. Solid and judicious scholarship for large WWII collections". --Gilbert Taylor
Basic Books New York 2010, 524 pages (hard cover)
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