History can familiarise, and it can warn. These were movements in which a leader or a party claimed to give voice to the people, promised to protect them from global existential threats, and rejected reason in favour of myth.Įuropean history shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary people can find themselves in unimaginable circumstances. In the twentieth century, European democracies collapsed into fascism, Nazism and communism. History does not repeat, but it does instruct. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century Timothy Snyder € 11.99 This item arrived at both our stores within the past 8 weeks If not in stock, the expected delivery time to our store for this item will be 3-5 working days.
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