on tyranny twenty lessons from the twentieth century summary

There's no uniformed youth movement behind it. SIEGEL: Let me put to you what might be a less-than-alarming interpretation of the Trump presidency. So - but to answer your question briefly, I am concerned about regime change in the United States, yes. The institutions only make it when people themselves do the little things that they can do as individuals. So I can't say for sure which way things are going, but what I do know is that our institutions don't defend themselves. We're not wiser than Germans in the 1930s. The myths that we tell about ourselves are not true. SNYDER: I guess the place to start is that America's not an exception. SIEGEL: Do you find in Donald Trump's nationalism alarming parallels with things you've written about in Europe - fascism, Stalinism? And I feel compelled to do so because I'm afraid things can change here very fast. So this is the first time that I'm writing about America. So I've spent the last 25 years writing, as you say, these books about how regimes change and about how political atrocities are committed. I'm a historian of Eastern and central Europe. I'm an American, but I'm not a historian of the United States. I would call it an arrival, an arrival back into the United States. SNYDER: Well, you just called it a departure. It is a slim, almost pocket-sized work subtitled 'Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century.' Snyder writes out of concern about the rise of Donald Trump, and his lessons range from such personal instruction as stand out and establish a private life to more common political fare like listen for dangerous words and beware of paramilitaries. So the Yale historian's latest book called 'On Tyranny' is a departure.

Timothy Snyder has written some sprawling, compelling books about war, genocide and the descent into dictatorship in mid-20th century Europe.

On tyranny twenty lessons from the twentieth century summary