Timothy D. Snyder is an American

United States

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 professor of history at Yale University

Yale University

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, specializing in the history of Central

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 and Eastern Europe

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, as well as the Holocaust. He is also affiliated with the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna and the College d'Europe in Natolin.

Snyder received his doctorate from the University of Oxford

University of Oxford

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, where he was a Marshall Scholar, in 1997. He has held fellowships in Paris, Vienna, Warsaw, and as an Academy Scholar at Harvard University

Harvard University

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.

Snyder is the author of five books: Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Central Europe: A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz

Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz

Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz was a Polish philosopher and sociologist, member of the Polish Socialist Party. He was one of the most significant Marxist thinkers at the end of the 19th century....

, The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999 , Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine (on Henryk Józewski

Henryk Józewski

Henryk Józewski was a Polish visual artist, politician, a member of government of the Ukrainian People's Republic, later an administrator during the Second Polish Republic....

), The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of A Habsburg Archduke (on Archduke Wilhelm of Austria), and Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin is a book written by Timothy D. Snyder, first published by Basic Books on October 28, 2010. The book is about the mass killing of an estimated 14 million non-combatants by the regimes of Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union and Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany...

. He is the co-editor of two further books, and helped Tony Judt to compose a history of the life of the mind in the twentieth century. He has written for the International Herald Tribune

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, The Nation

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, New York Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, The New Republic

The New Republic

The magazine has also published two articles concerning income inequality, largely criticizing conservative economists for their attempts to deny the existence or negative effect increasing income inequality is having on the United States...

, Eurozine

Eurozine

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, Tygodnik Powszechny

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Tygodnik Powszechny is a Polish Roman Catholic weekly magazine, focusing on social and cultural issues. Established in 1945 under the auspices of Cardinal Adam Stefan Sapieha, Jerzy Turowicz was its editor-in-chief until his death in 1999. He was succeeded by priest Adam Boniecki.-History:The...

, the Chicago Tribune

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, the Christian Science Monitor

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, and other periodicals.

Works

• Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
  Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
  Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin is a book written by Timothy D. Snyder, first published by Basic Books on October 28, 2010. The book is about the mass killing of an estimated 14 million non-combatants by the regimes of Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union and Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany...
  
  (Basic Books, 2010)
• Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Central Europe: A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz (Harvard University Press, 1998);
• Wall Around the West: State Power and Immigration Controls in Europe and North America (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000) as co-editor with Peter Andreas.
• The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999 (Yale University Press, 2003);
• Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine (Yale University Press, 2005);
• The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of A Habsburg Archduke (Basic Books, 2008);
• Thinking the Twentieth Century (Tony Judt
  Tony Judt
  Tony Robert Judt FBA was a British historian, essayist, and university professor who specialized in European history. Judt moved to New York and served as the Erich Maria Remarque Professor in European Studies at New York University, and Director of NYU's Erich Maria Remarque Institute...
  
  with Timothy Snyder) (Penguin, 2011)
• "Stalinism in Europe: War, Terror, Domination," as co-editor with Ray Brandon (in progress).
• "Brotherlands: A Family History of the European Nations" (in progress).
• "A History of Eastern Europe" (in progress).