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<i>The Road to Unfreedom</i>

The Road to Unfreedom

2018 book by Timothy Snyder

The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America is a 2018 book by Timothy Snyder. In it, Snyder explores Russian attempts to influence Western democracies and the influence of philosopher Ivan Ilyin on Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian Federation in general.[1][2][3]

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Reviews

Historian Margaret MacMillan writing for The New York Times calls the book a "good wake up call",[4] while Tim Adams in a review for The Guardian describes the book as "persuasive", "chilling and unignorable"[5] and a review in Fair Observer calls it an "important addition to the literature explaining current events" and rising authoritarianism.[6]

Other reviewers dismissed the book as a "current liberal narrative",[7] a paranoia "that has emerged among liberals in Trump's wake",[8] misrepresenting Ilyin and overestimating the influence of Russia in the United States and United Kingdom.[9]

According to the WorldCat, the book has been translated into 13 languages: German, Spanish, Romanian, Russian, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Czech, Polish, Hungarian, Japanese, and also in Finnish and Croatian. It was translated into Ukrainian in 2020.[10]

References

  1. [1]
    Lucas, Edward (March 24, 2018). "Review: The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America by Timothy Snyder — why the West is losing to Putin". The Times. Retrieved May 16, 2018.
  2. [2]
    "Understand Putin by understanding his favourite thinkers". The Economist. April 5, 2018. Retrieved May 16, 2018.
  3. [3]
    Adams, Tim (April 15, 2018). "The Road to Unfreedom by Timothy Snyder review – chilling and unignorable". The Guardian. Retrieved May 16, 2018.
  4. [4]
    "Are We Traveling the 'Road to Unfreedom'?". The New York Times. May 9, 2018.
  5. [5]
    Adams, Tim (15 April 2018). "The Road to Unfreedom by Timothy Snyder review – chilling and unignorable". the Guardian.
  6. [6]
    Kolasa, Matthew (August 21, 2018). "Walking the Road to Unfreedom". Fair Observer. Retrieved August 22, 2018.
  7. [7]
    Maitra, Sumantra. "This Is Not How We Got Here". University Bookman. Kirk Center. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
  8. [8]
    Pinkham, Sophie (May 3, 2018). "Zombie History: Timothy Snyder's bleak vision of the past and present". The Nation. Retrieved May 27, 2018.
  9. [9]
    "Fascism and The Road to Unfreedom review – the warning from the 1930s".
  10. [10]
    "Шлях до несвободи. Росія, Європа, Америка". The Ukrainians (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2022-03-12.


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