An Analysis of Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands

A flagbearer for the increasingly fashionable genre of "transnational history," Snyder's Bloodlands is a stunning example of the critical thinking skill of evaluation. Snyder cites evidence in 10 languages, putting fresh twists on the familiar story of World War II Nazi-Soviet fighting on the Eastern Front.

Dr Helen Roche teaches History at the University of Cambridge, where her work focuses on education and the uses of classicism in Nazi Germany. Her second monograph, The Third Reich's Elite Schools: A History of the Napolas, is forthcoming from the Oxford University Press.

Ways In to the Text Who is Timothy Snyder? What does Bloodlands Say? Why does Bloodlands Matter? Section 1: Influences Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context Module 2: Academic Context Module 3: The Problem Module 4: The Author's Contribution Section 2: Ideas Module 5: Main Ideas Module 6: Secondary Ideas Module 7: Achievement Module 8: Place in the Author's Work Section 3: Impact Module 9: The First Responses Module 10: The Evolving Debate Module 11: Impact and Influence Today Module 12: Where Next? Glossary of Terms People Mentioned in the Text Works Cited