Timothy Snyder: Bloodlands and Black Earth
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: May 3, 2016, 19:00 – 21:00
On the occasion of the release of Czech language audio books of Bloodlands and Black Earth by US historian Timothy Snyder, translator Petruška Šustrová, historian Tomáš Bursík and Michael Žantovský will discuss historical events on the territory of today’s Poland, Ukraine, Belarus and Baltic States in the 1930s and 1940s.
It took less than two decades for the policies of two leaders – Hitler and Stalin – to result in the deaths of 14 million people. The succession of disasters that passed this way cannot be explained on the basis of the particularity or history of individual nations, but only in terms of the special position of these countries in Europe, the motives of the two totalitarian regimes, and the aims and methods of the two dictators and the connections between them.
The discussion will be supplemented with excerpts from the audio books, which were read by Jiří Plachý.