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Book presentation and discussion
Americans call the Second World War "The Good War". But before it even began, America's wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens – and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was finally defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. At war's end, both the German and the Soviet killing sites fell behind the iron curtain, leaving the history of mass killing in darkness.
"A lifetime's work by a Yale University historian who deserves to be read and reread," wrote The Economist about Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands. Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. The book, which is now out in German translation, is a new kind of European narrative, presenting the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes as two aspects of a single history.
In a discussion organized in cooperation with the IWM in Vienna, Timothy Snyder presents Bloodlands and talks to historian Sybille Steinbacher about the central tragedy of modern history.
BLOODLANDS
Book presentation and discussion
Speakers:
Timothy Snyder
Sybille Steinbacher
Introduction:
Christoph Prantner
Time: Thursday 20 Oktober 2011, 6 pm
Place: IWM, Spittelauer Lände 3, 1090 Vienna
Language: German and English
On the speakers
Timothy Snyder is Professor of History at Yale University, member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Permanent Fellow of the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna and a Eurozine contributor.Sybille Steinbacher is Professor of History at the University of Vienna. Her fields of research include Nazism, the Holocaust, Fascism in a European context as well as the social and cultural history of sexuality.
Christoph Prantner is foreign affairs editor at Der Standard.
Further reading
In May 2009, Timothy Snyder delivered the keynote speech at the Eurozine conference "European histories" in Vilnius, a speech that summed up some of the theses that was later developed in Bloodlands. Eurozine published this essay under the title "Holocaust: The ignored reality".
Read Timothy Snyder's essay Holocaust: The ignored reality
Eurozine focus on European narratives
In recent years, the possibility of a "grand narrative" that includes both East and West in a common European story has been discussed intensely. In a new focal point, published in cooperation with the European Cultural Foundation, Eurozine seeks to broaden the question beyond the East-West historical divide. How are contested interpretations of historical and recent events made active in the present, both uniting and dividing European societies? The focal point European histories (2): Concord and conflictThis event is a cooperation of Eurozine with IWM, C.H. Beck, Bruno Kreisky Forum, Europäisch-Ukrainische Kooperation, Polnisches Institut Wien, Polnische Akademie der Wissenschaften Wien, Wiesenthal-Institut, Der Standard and the European Cultural Foundation.
Published 2011-10-03
Original in English
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