Perverse Egalitarianism (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... the beginning of knowledge, a hint of the true reckoning with the past still to come. The author, Timothy Snyder, continues: The very reasons that we know something about Auschwitz warp our understanding of the Holocaust: we know about Auschwitz because there were survivors, and there were survivors because Auschwitz was a labour camp as well as a death factory. These survivors were...
Eurozine articles (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
The Central European Forum, an international conference open to the public, will take place in Bratislava on 17 and 18 November 2009. Participants include Slavenka Drakulic, Miklos Haraszti, Ivan Krastev, Robert Menasse, Adam Michnik, Martin Simecka and Timothy Snyder.
The New York Review of Books (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Timothy Snyder Václav Klaus ( supportvaclavklaus.wordpress.com ) The Czech Republic is a country where everything seems to work, except for the political system. I once lived here, but hadn’t returned for eleven years. Almost everything looks better than it did in 1998, and almost everything looked better in 1998 than it did in 1989, the year of the Velvet Revolution. The...
