What do you think of Timothy Snyder’s book, On Tyranny? Guess I was surprised you didn’t include the professor’s concise work at least in your list of books for undergraduates. Just wondering… 🤔
It's a good question - I plan on reviewing useful and non-useful lessons from On Tyranny at some point. The short answer is when I read it the first time around I found it too glib and sweeping to be of much analytical use, but I am looking forward to re-reading this summer to see if my impression still holds.
A remarkably well-curated list—useful not just for understanding authoritarian regimes, but for grasping the intellectual scaffolding that props them up
What do you think of Timothy Snyder’s book, On Tyranny? Guess I was surprised you didn’t include the professor’s concise work at least in your list of books for undergraduates. Just wondering… 🤔
It's a good question - I plan on reviewing useful and non-useful lessons from On Tyranny at some point. The short answer is when I read it the first time around I found it too glib and sweeping to be of much analytical use, but I am looking forward to re-reading this summer to see if my impression still holds.
A remarkably well-curated list—useful not just for understanding authoritarian regimes, but for grasping the intellectual scaffolding that props them up
Thanks! Glad it is helpful!
The only thing worth reading on this list is Lenin’s State and Revolution