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Timothy David Snyder is an American historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust. He holds the inaugural Chair in Modern European History, supported by the Temerty Endowment for Ukrainian Studies, at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. From 2017 to 2025 he was the Richard C. Levin Professor of…
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Born 18 August 1969 · Q747312
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“The ruins of the library are going to be there. I can raise money for that later. But right now, what’s happening is that the Russians are trying to freeze millions of people out by destroying the power grid . And so what I should be trying to do is try to stop that.”
“The opportunity came at a time when my spouse and I had to address some difficult family matters....aside from a strong appreciation of what U of T has to offer, the motivations are largely that--personal.”
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“The truth is never, never with those who hold power. The truth is with everyone else.”
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Modern Ghana: Timothy Snyder: Dems should talk more about prosecuting corrupt Trump officials
Yahoo: Historian Timothy Snyder Says the U.S. Is Undergoing an “Authoritarian Regime Change”
Комерсант Український: Run for Freedom: Registration is now open for the KSE charity run featuring Timothy Snyder
International Business Times UK: 'Trump People Likely To Wreck Us': Historian Timothy Snyder Warns America May End in Five Years
Snyder used his Substack platform publication, Thinking About
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As asserting the government’s monopoly on truth, while identifying all other information as ideology or propaganda
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Timothy Snyder said of Elon Musk’s attempt to seize control of the U
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Democracy Now!: “Do Not Obey in Advance”: Timothy Snyder on How Corporate America Is Bending to Trump
Yahoo: Timothy Snyder: ‘You have to be in the moment in order to get through the moment’
PBS: Historian Timothy Snyder on VP Harris’ “Freedom” Campaign
WSHU news: Timothy Snyder's 'On Freedom' explores how we misunderstand the concept
Snyder and Mark Hamill jointly launched the United24 Safe Terrain Initiative; this funded mine-clearing robots to remove explosive ordnance from Ukrainian land, reduce risks for sappers, and allow people to return to the
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Won Medal for Distinguished Contribution to Diplomacy (2024).
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RealClearPolitics: Timothy Snyder: The West Needs To Abandon The Fantasy That There's Anything We Can Say Or Do To "Make Russia Normal"
Published On Freedom, a book on how the concept of freedom has been misunderstood and must be redefined
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Awarded Commander of the Order for Merits to Lithuania (2023).
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Snyder briefed the United Nations Security Council in a meeting called by Russia to address Russophobia
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Timothy Snyder became the tenth ambassador of the UNITED24 fundraising platform; he completed a fundraiser for a system to counter Russian unmanned aerial vehicles in Ukraine, thereby protecting Ukraine's critical infras
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To explain the origins and course of the Russo-Ukrainian war, he made his Yale lecture series The Making of Modern Ukraine available to the general public on YouTube and as a podcast series, along with the syllabus and r
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On the resonance of Nazi history within Donald Trump's claim to a landslide victory, Snyder recalled the German Reich's "stab in the back" lie that its army did not really lose the First World War, but rather, Jews and l
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Was named as one of 25 members of the Real Facebook Oversight Board, an independent group monitoring Facebook
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Published a book on the American health care system, called Our Malady
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Awarded Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science (2018).
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Published The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
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Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (2017).
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And it remained on bestseller lists as late as 2021
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Published On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, a short book about how to prevent a democracy from becoming a tyranny; the book focused on modern United States politics and on what he called "America'
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Snyder was the Bird White Housum Professor of History at Yale University
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Snyder described the book as an attempt to overcome the limitations of national history in explaining the political crimes perpetrated in Eastern Europe during the 1930s and 1940s:
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Awarded Carnegie Fellow presented by Carnegie Corporation of New York (2015).
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Awarded The VIZE 97 Prize (2015).
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Awarded Hannah Arendt Prize for Bloodlands (2013).
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Awarded Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding for Bloodlands (2012).
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Featuring reviews by Mark Mazower, Dan Diner, Thomas Kühne, and Jörg Baberowski, with an introduction and response by Snyder
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Career landmark: Cleveringa chair (2012–2013).
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Kazimierz Moczarski History Prize for Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
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Awarded Ralph Waldo Emerson Award (2011).
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Snyder published the book Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
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Published “RNA-Seq: a revolutionary tool for transcriptomics” in Nature Reviews Genetics — cited 11,048 times.
Published The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke
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Published “Complex thermoelectric materials” in Nature Materials — cited 10,941 times.
Snyder published the book Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine
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To Marci Shore, a professor of European cultural and intellectual history at Yale University
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Awarded George Louis Beer Prize (2003).
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Published The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569–1999
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Published “A default mode of brain function” in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences — cited 10,468 times.
Studied at Balliol College (1991–1995).
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At the University of Oxford with a thesis on the Polish Marxist Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, supervised by Timothy Garton Ash and Polish Academy of Sciences' Jerzy Jedlicki
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Snyder married fellow academic Milada Vachudova, with whom he also collaborated on scholarly work
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Studied at Brown University (1987–1991).
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And was influenced to take up European history by Mary Gluck and Thomas W
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Born 1969-08-18.
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Near Dayton, Ohio; he is the son of Christine Hadley Snyder, a teacher, accountant, and homemaker, and Estel Eugene Snyder, a veterinarian
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In Ohio, and his mother was active in preserving her family farmstead as a Quaker historic site
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