Five years ago, Timothy Snyder began work on The Road to Unfreedom, a book examining a modern political transformation: What happens when factual truth is upended? When wealth is concentrated? When battlefronts are online as well as on the ground? The Yale history professor had drafted the book — a book about Russia and Ukraine — by November 2016, but then Donald Trump was elected president.Instead of submitting the book he’d planned, Snyder, perhaps best known up to that point for his critically acclaimed histories Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin and Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning, …read more
Source: Gulf times
