Americans reasoned that the failure of the communist story … - Timothy Snyder

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Americans reasoned that the failure of the communist story confirmed the truth of the capitalist one. Americans and Europeans kept telling themselves their tales of inevitability for a quarter century after the end of communism, and so raise a millennial generation without history.

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Timothy David Snyder (born 1969) is an American historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust.

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Alternative Names: Timothy David Snyder • Timothy D. Snyder • T.D. Snyder • Tim Snyder

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