Om tyranni

20 ting vi kan lære av det 20. århundre

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Paperback, 110 pages

Norwegian (Bokmål) language

Published 2017 by Press.

ISBN:
978-82-328-0153-4
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In previous books, Holocaust historian Timothy Snyder dissected the events and values that enabled the rise of Hitler and Stalin and the execution of their catastrophic policies. With Twenty Lessons, Snyder draws from the darkest hours of the twentieth century to provide hope for the twenty-first. As he writes, "Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism and communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience."

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reviewed On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder

On Tyranny - wow what a book.

It's short, 120 pages. An author I follow recommended it around Halloween time saying it was scary. Oh yeah. Many of the lessons in this book are eerily present today. Each lesson covers actions and duties for us to do to thwart it.

Even though it was published in 2017, it's still present for this day and age. This is a manual for any patriot to own and use. We all should read this book. I plan to reread it every couple years.

reviewed On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder

On Tyranny - wow, should be required reading.

An author I follow recommended this book during Halloween, saying it was scary. Oh yeah. This covers 20 lessons from recent history (pre/during/post WWII) and what happened, and also covers some recent political action, such as the 2016 US Presidential election. Does have mentions to the founding fathers fear of tyranny which influenced their debates and early documents.

Essentially, the lessons give you actions to fight tyranny and what signs to look out for, and how to be a patriot.. Unfortunately, many of the signs can be seen today.

A short read for this book, as it's smaller in size. There is also a full size graphic novel version. Get either. I plan to re-read this every couple years. Fantastic book. I hope I won't need it as a reference.

reviewed On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder

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I'm late to this book - it's been a part of the discourse for a decade or so now. It's strong, punchy, and pithy: a quick guide to the mindsets we need in order to prevent totalitarianism. But its sections on media and the internet feel particularly weak - a call to support print newspapers doesn't feel like the right thing - and I think its claims about communism are not particularly nuanced. Still, we need calls to action, and this is a good one.

reviewed On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder

Useful book with some flaws.

Does not properly distinguish power from authority, i.e. "A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do. Anticipatory obedience is a political tragedy."

Historical details were glossed over in the prologue which might misinform some readers.

The Yale experiment on fascism is presented to imply that by human nature we are naturally quick to harm one another, in some twister Hobbesian assumption - rather than a product of the limited sample size in a small study under specific economic, political, and societal conditions of the USA.

Otherwise, there are many great ways to defend against and confront Tyranny that are applicable primary to the USA, and secondarily to other western democracies.