On Tyranny Revisited: The Timothy Snyder Interview

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🗓️ 21 December 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

How does the world stop a genocide? How will Russia's war in Ukraine end? Why should Americans, or anyone around the world, care about Ukraine today? Historian Timothy Snyder, who recently produced a viral YouTube series by simply putting his lectures online of his class teaching the making of modern Ukraine, returns to Gaslit Nation. Snyder is our first three-time guest, making him Rufus to our Bill and Ted in this most not excellent adventure.

Snyder is the author of several bestselling books, including Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America, and the resistance pocket guide On Tyranny with an audio guide that has been updated to include Russia's current war against Ukraine and democracies worldwide -- On Tyranny: Expanded Audio Edition Updated with Twenty New Lessons from Russia's War on Ukraine.

If you want to join Professor Snyder in helping Ukraine, donate to his anti-drone defense fund here. Every little bit helps.

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0:00.0	I'm Sarah Kensier, the author of the bestsellers, The View from Flyover Country, and Hiding in Plain Sight, and of the book, They Knew, How a Culture of Conspiracypiracy keeps America complacent, which is out now.
0:23.0	I'm Andrea Chalupa, a journalist and filmmaker, and the writer and producer of the journalistic
0:28.5	thriller, Mr. Jones, about Stalin's genocide, famine, and Ukraine, a film that was made possible
0:34.9	by today's guest, the great Timothy Snyder, who is friends with
0:41.1	Ignatka Hall and the director. And I met Ignatheka through him. And also, he was the historical
0:46.6	advisor, one of many, but one of the most rock-like ones on the production. Tim Snyder, who needs no introduction, but we'll give him one anyway.
0:56.7	He is the Richard C. Levin.
0:58.2	I got to introduce the show.
1:00.5	Oh, and we have a show called Gaslit Nation.
1:03.4	Which is a podcast covering corruption in the United States and rising
1:06.7	autocracy around the world.
1:08.4	It's great.
1:09.4	So Tim Snyder is a professor of a history at Yale
1:12.4	University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He speaks five
1:18.3	and reads 10 European languages. Some of his best-selling books include Bloodlands, Europe,
1:24.3	and Hitler and Stalin, The Road to Unfreedom, Russia, Europe, America, and now his best-selling pocket guide on resistance to fascism on tyranny has been expanded into a new audio edition that includes 20 new lessons from Russia's war in Ukraine, available now.
1:41.2	Professor Snyder also went viral this year by putting his lecture series on Ukraine
1:45.4	on YouTube, and it's now available as a podcast series on Apple and Spotify. So curl up this
1:51.3	holiday season by the fire and check that out. We'll have links in the show notes. Welcome,
1:55.6	once again, to Gaslit Nation. Very glad to be with both of you. Well, we're thrilled. You're our
1:59.9	first three-time guest.
2:01.7	Sarah and I have a lot to get out of our system today with you. It's sort of like Bill and Ted's excellent adventure where you're our Rufus. This reference is going to go over Tim Snyder's head, but that maybe speaks well. No, no, no, that's like that was generationally inevitable that I would get that one. No, I'm with you.
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