NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER •
From the author of On Tyranny comes a stunning new chronicle of the rise of
authoritarianism from Russia to Europe and America.
A brilliant analysis of our time.Karl Ove Knausgaard,
The New Yorker
With the
end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy seemed final. Observers
declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. This
faith was misplaced. Authoritarianism returned to Russia, as Putin found
fascist ideas that could be used to justify rule by the wealthy. In the 2010s,
it has spread from east to west, aided by Russian warfare in Ukraine and
cyberwar in Europe and the United States.
Russia
found allies among nationalists, oligarchs, and radicals everywhere, and its
drive to dissolve Western institutions, states, and values found resonance
within the West itself. The rise of populism, the British vote against the EU,
and the election of Donald Trump were all Russian goals, but their achievement
reveals the vulnerability of Western societies.
In this
forceful and unsparing work of contemporary history, based on vast research as
well as personal reporting, Snyder goes beyond the headlines to expose the true
nature of the threat to democracy and law. To understand the challenge is to
see, and perhaps renew, the fundamental political virtues offered by tradition
and demanded by the future. By revealing the stark choices before us--between
equality or oligarchy, individuality or totality, truth and falsehood--Snyder
restores our understanding of the basis of our way of life, offering a way
forward in a time of terrible uncertainty.
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