Krvavé země

Between the two empires, Hitler's and Stalin's, there are bloody lands. Less than two decades have been enough for fourteen million people to die as a result of the policies of the two leaders. Awareness of the events of the 1930s and 1940s in what is now Poland, Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic States is growing, but they are still isolated events: the Ukrainian famine after Stalin's collectivisation, Katyn or the so-called final solution to the Jewish question. Timothy Snyder's wide-angle coverage is a novelty in the history of the territory. The sequence of catastrophes that swept through cannot be explained on the basis of individual facts or the history of individual nations, but only from the special position of these countries in Europe, from its historical causes, from the motives of two totalitarian ideologies, from the intentions and methods of two dictators and their interconnections. Bloody Lands is thus the first synthetic monograph to capture in its entirety the confluence of these unfortunate circumstances that resulted in the greatest demographic and humanitarian catastrophe ever inflicted by man in human history.

Czech edition