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Publisher's summary
With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy was thought to be absolute. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. But we now know this to be premature.
Authoritarianism first returned in Russia, as Putin developed a political system dedicated solely to the consolidation and exercise of power. In the last six years, it has creeped from east to west as nationalism inflames Europe, abetted by Russian propaganda and cyberwarfare. While countries like Poland and Hungary have made hard turns toward authoritarianism, the electoral upsets of 2016 revealed the citizens of the US and UK in revolt against their countries’ longstanding policies and values.
But this threat to the West also presents the opportunity to better understand the pillars of our own political order. In this forceful and unsparing work of contemporary history, Snyder goes beyond the headlines to expose the true nature of the threat to democracy. By showcasing the stark choices before us - between equality or oligarchy, individuality or totality, truth and falsehood - Snyder restores our understanding of the basis of our way of life, offering a way forward in a time of terrible uncertainty.
Critic reviews
"Combining topical reporting with delvings into the history of ideas and some political-philosophical musing in the author’s own voice, this relatively short book covers a vast canvas.... A roller-coaster world calls for a news editor's skill in processing facts and a philosopher's ability to dissect ideologies. Snyder has both." (The Economist)
"The Road to Unfreedom offers a brief, potent and carefully documented history of Vladimir Putin's consolidation of power in Russia, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election." (Chicago Tribune)
“We are living in dangerous times, Timothy Snyder argues forcefully and eloquently in his new book.... To understand Putin, Snyder argues persuasively, you must understand his ideas.... The Road to Unfreedom is a good wake-up call.” (Margaret MacMillan, The New York Times Book Review)
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American Hubris; Vietnamese Misery
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challenges stereotypes
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Terrible
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- Richard Keohane
- 04-08-18
A Key Understanding of Modern Politics
Would you consider the audio edition of The Road to Unfreedom to be better than the print version?
The Road to Unfreedom is a dense text, delving with deliberate action into history, philosophy, and politics. Listening can be mentally less taxing than reading.
What was the most compelling aspect of this narrative?
The book gives a comprehensive understanding of political narratives, and which ones are enticing but hollow and which ones aren't sexy but enrich nations and their citizens. It made me reconsider many of my political beliefs.
Which scene was your favorite?
The division of Identity Politics vs. Prosperity Politics made me rethink how I vote.
If you could give The Road to Unfreedom a new subtitle, what would it be?
The War Between Politicians Who Talk About Cultural Identity, Vs. Politicians Who Say What Can Be Done For Those They Represent
Any additional comments?
A must-read for those who wish to be informed about modern politics.
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- chiz f
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The Most Important Book I've Read in Years
This book has changed my view of the current world and politics in the most important way: clarity, cogency, the importance of facts and research, and the tactics of manipulation used as psychological warfare on vulnerable uneducated human populations. America is not exceptional, America is not eternal, America is just a part of history and the sooner we focus on dealing with the realities of the present, the rule of law, social justice and governance for the benefit of all citizens and the welfare of the planet and life on it the better. The forces that work to destroy that evolution towards a higher consciousness of humanity are the real and constant threat to our potential humanity.
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- Amazon Customer
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Fascinating Exploration of Current Events
Anyone who has been trying to make sense of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the 2016 U.S. elections, and Russian actions more generally will likely find this of interest. It describes the ideological inspiration behind Putin and his cronies and their reasoning for interfering in other countries. By combining recent history, current events, and the philosophies of several important ideological figures with his own observations from long study of Europe, Timothy Snyder has done the best job so far of making sense of these events.
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- Steve Guillian
- 05-15-18
Fellow citizens
I beg you to read this book. I beg you to think about this book. I beg you to think about citizenry and the consequences of your seemingly mundane choices (like where you get your news) have on your impact as a citizen.
This book confronts home truths. The depth of that confrontation makes this a book you will probably have to breath through. If you you read this book, thank you for your courage, we will all walk out of this dark defining moment together, and along the way rediscover and recommit to the principles of western democracy
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- Jorge Santos
- 07-27-18
The definitive work on our current crisis
This text is simply excellent, and other than trouble with a few Russian names, the audiobook performance conveys the text clearly and enjoyably.
while the final quarter of the text deals with Trump in a manner that will upset his supporters, the author's analytical approach does not leave room for hand holding or false equivalency. Potential readers either want a serious scholarly treatment of the subject, with a major focus on the ideological roots of Putin's strategy and tactics at home and against Europe and the US, or they will not understand or enjoy Snyder's work.
One note of caution: this text/audiobook may be too dry/academic for some, but the level of detail reflects Snyder's training/profession, and makes his case more persuasive, if less accessable for some casual readers.
That said, I cannot recommend it more highly to anyone interested in the Russian roots of America's unfolding crisis.
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- Timothy E. Kennelly
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Hatchet Job, Not a History
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Greetings,So, Timothy Snyder's book, "The Road to Unfreedom" is a not a history. It is a political hatchet job. There are only two possibilities: either Donald Trump will be impeached and removed from office or otherwise forced to resign, or the book is essentially bull****. I will not be reading another book by this author.PSI wrote a "one star" review for Amazon for the physical book and it looks like they refused to post. I have never had that happen before. I have been reviewing books for a long time. It is very odd and I wonder if this has anything to do with the content of the book and the review.
What was most disappointing about Timothy Snyder’s story?
It is a hatchet job pretending to be a history.
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
Dismay.
Any additional comments?
There is a fair amount of interesting material in the book, but the closing sections of the book are so partisan and obviously distorted that I am unwilling to take any of Snyder's claims seriously unless they are already known to me, or I do further reading on the subject. Every rumor about Trump is reported as fact, and an entire narrative of Trump's rise is invented by the author with the unbelievable assumption that Trump is and has always been understood to be a failed businessman in Russia who was simply propped up to be used for political purposes at a later date. "Trump the successful businessman" is said to be a Russian fiction that Putin and his buddies invented so that they could exploit Trump and the US. The book is a left wing pipe dream.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-29-19
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Mr Snyder confuses history with his own particular political taste, invents categories out of whole cloth. Some of the distortions are so blatantly obvious, that one must arrive at the conclusion that this is deliberate propaganda.
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- 4thace
- 04-08-20
If this is what really happened, we're in trouble
This book makes the case that many or most of the declines in openness and freedom over the last three decades in Western Europe and in the United States can be traced by a consistent effort by Vladimir Putin's Russia to spread strife to other nations which are seen as perpetual enemies. The author goes back to the first half of the twentieth century where a man I'd never heard of before, Ivan Alexandrovich Ilyin, put together the right-wing counterpart of the Russian Communist philosophies. Ilyin died in the 1950s but was brought back in the 1990s as someone who explained the misfortunes experienced by that country as a kind of contagion by the decadent and evil west which was determined to frustrate the realization of a united Eurasian empire inspired by the kingdom of Kievan Rus in the early Middle Ages centered. The rise of the class of oligarchs found themes in this philosophy which suited the kinds of things they were doing to enhance their personal wealth, much of it revolving around a narrative of endless struggle with outside nations which parallels the class struggle emphasized by the left.
The author then focuses on the years between 2010 and 2016 when Putin had consolidated his power as lifetime ruler and has gathered other oligarchical families in Russia and outside. The invasion of Ukraine is part military operation, part cyberwar, and a good deal psyops to the population of Russia. The presentation is not scholarly and there are no guides to primary sources here, so the careful reader would have to do a good deal of fact-checking on their own to verify the dozens or hundreds of incidents covered. There are a few names which recur over and over as fellow travelers with fascistic tendencies hoping to emulate the successes in their own governments. Towards the end of this section come the more or less direct attacks against the political systems of Poland, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. I got the impression that they must have been pleased with the amount of success they have had beyond their wildest dreams in foisting a kleptocratic structure modeled on the Russian oligarchy on America as punishment for our attempts to meddle in their affairs over the past century.
It is a horror story for a person who believes in the old myths about liberal democracy and about its inevitable spread among all nations. It made me angry and outraged that this whole scheme played out so perfectly to Putin's advantage and still somehow left him as something other than an utter pariah in public opinion. Of course the other world leaders do not have the freedom to shun such a dangerous character, and of course there are thousands of Ukrainians who know how the actions on the ground and the embrace of alternative facts came so close to dismembering their entire country, and yet it doesn't seem like there's an enormous reservoir of loathing among Western European and North American citizens at what he has orchestrated over all this time. There have been dangerous strongmen in the past which weren't greeted with a collective shrug. There have been sanctions, but beyond that, it seems like there has been no way to register the kind of revulsion these kinds of authoritarian moves cause in people who still believe in Enlightenment ideals.
I listened to the audiobook version of this and found it maybe even more gripping than it would have been in print. This is a case where the voice of the author add something to the experience of the work; it makes it easier to hear the alarm bells he's ringing, in my opinion. I found it an absorbing work that scared me out of my wits that I would recommend to anyone who would want to be shaken in the same way.
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- International Roamer
- 04-21-18
Huge Disappointment
Being a big fan of Timothy Snyder’s book Bloodlands and someone who enjoys studying Russia, I really looked forward to listening to The Road to Unfreedom. I could hardly get through his many premises in the introduction including his belief that President Trump colluded with the Russians. I tried to listen to the first chapter to hear another point of view, but simply couldn’t stomach his many conjectures that he asserted as fact, rather than theory. Depending on ones political bent, this is a love it or hate it book. I’m afraid I fall into the latter category. Two thumbs down.
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- Linda Blake
- 11-27-20
Unfreedom
This book gives the best description of how the last thirty years came about and why we had a president Trump. Who knew we could provide so much entertainment to Putin and Russia with so much pain sorrow for America. I hope with President Biden that America will be more willing to help all of the people but somehow I don’t see that happening as the 1 per centers want it all. Unfortunately Republicans play by the Russian rules. At least with Timothy Snyder’s book I understand what is occurring and why.
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