

Snyder remains focused on this theme in The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America, in which he applies a central paradigm to Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 but broadens the thesis to include an assessment of Ukraine, the European Union, and the United States. In 2017 Snyder’s focus shifted to the increasing threats to liberty in Europe and the U.S., a subject he explored in On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the 20 th Century.


Perhaps his most influential work is Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin, which explored the lands between Germany and the Soviet Union on which millions of civilians were killed by Adolf Hitler’s Germany and Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union. Timothy Snyder has written a number of award-winning books, many of which address issues of violence, challenges to freedom, and the threat of tyranny in twentieth- and twenty-first century Europe with a significant focus on the Soviet Union-Russia, Germany, and Eastern Europe.
