NEW DATE!! A History Watch PARTY with Timothy Snyder #2

 “A World of Empire.”

This is the second lecture in Timothy Snyders series "Hitler and Stalin Today" from his History class from University of Toronto.  

Totalitarianism did not emerge from nowhere. It was a response to the world of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and more particularly to the empires that Europeans had created during the previous four or five centuries. To understand the aims of Hitler and other fascists, of Lenin and Stalin, we must first understand the world in which they matured, one in which Europeans dominated others and applied law only to themselves. In some ways the fascists and the Leninists sought to break this world order, in that they wanted to transcend other empires; in some ways they took imperial practices to a radical extreme.

The readings for this series can be found in the Resources section of our Red Wine and Blue landing page for our group and at the bottom of this post.   

There are 2 fairly short readings that would be great to read ahead of time. Snyder conducts his lectures based on the assumption that we have read it.  ( The language is a bit antiquated and confusing, so just do your best, don't stress.)

The first one , Colonization: A Global History is page 1-23. The second one, is chapter 5.  These are both located in the Google Drive that has been added to the resources pages.


Please plan on bringing questions, thoughts, wonderings, reactions, insights etc. so we can discuss. 

And would it be a PARTY with out cake? Of course not! There will be something yummy!


Timothy Snyder 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. He is also a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna and the head of the academic advisory council of Ukrainian History Global Initiative.

Readings for lesson 2

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1giBCZHASqt-A766rk4MFqECU7pibVC4X/view?usp=drivesdk

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jVUwE0B4yl8INLEoYdeQTlZcxj9Od54Z/view?usp=drivesdk

Summaries of readings (AI generated)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1slQCwiRMjQtvUwiCtxYgk0GjgcLZkOrr7DwP_Tr7Zdo/edit?usp=drivesdk