7/5/2023 0 Comments Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder![]() Snyder’s work is part of this transformation, starting with the very term he chooses to refer to his object of study: from his introduction, he tells us that he wants to offer a “human geography of the victims” in this Eastern-Oriental space where the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany came to dominate and confront each other. Geography took over once more from a political differentiation between two ideological “blocks”. ![]() ![]() Does anyone remember this? After 1989, people spoke less and less about “Eastern Europe”, and more and more about Central and Eastern Europe: the former division of the old continent into East and West was forgotten. It seems as though he has catalysed a new collapse inside his readers: not of a physical wall, but of “mental walls” – or at least, he seems to have managed to open up some substantial holes in them. ![]() Some twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Timothy Snyder’s work is contributing to the transformation of our conceptions of Europe’s recent history. There are some books which change the way we look at a period in history: Bloodlands is one of them. The following note is based on articles published in two journals, which have organised recent debates around the book, Contemporary European History (May 2012) and Le Débat (November 2012).An interview of Timothy D. ![]()
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