Russia, the author of the book suggests, launched an unprovoked attack on Western civilization and brought Donald Trump to the highest political office in the world. This amounted, according to Snyder, to nothing less than an assault. How did Russia plan and managed to achieve the destruction of the West? Essentially by altering the state of mind of millions of clueless citizens in America and Europe through a campaign of social media influence.
In his book, the American professor accuses Russia of having plotted nothing less that the “destruction of the United States and the European Union”. Russia does not generally enjoy a good reputation among European and American intellectuals, but few have gone so far as Mr Snyder. But which country? For Europeans and Americans today, the answer is Russia.” The central purpose of the book is to sound a warning call to all people in the West, or like the description says: “The past in another country, the old saying goes.
The problem is, it might be so for all the wrong reasons. The characters and their world come alive,Īnd the characters and its world still live on.Ĭonversation Starters is peppered with questions designed toĪnd invite us into the world that lives on.Timothy Snyder’s book “The Road to Unfreedom” is, in many respects, extraordinary. The Road to Unfreedom is another critically acclaimed book from the author of the bestselling On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century.ĮVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER And yet, Snyder believes that though it all looks grim, people can still do something to prevent the worst from happening. Yale history professor Timothy Snyder warns that the social, economic, and political repression in Russia could happen in the US and Europe. Political events in the past decade in Europe and America have seen Russia’s strong interference - Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it’s a denunciation of the European Union, the Brexit referendum, and the election of Donald Trump. The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America by Timothy Snyder | Conversation Starters
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