![]() ![]() Introducing all the anti-historical monstrosities that a vain imagination could suggest. Timothy Snyder is guilty, in the words of Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel, of Frequently, they are embellished with details that are based not in the historical record but in Snyder’s imagination. Horror stories about a no doubt horrific period in history are recounted with glee and the intention to shock, disturb and confuse the reader, not to explain. The method Snyder employs in Bloodlands, to the extent that one can speak of method, is one of wild subjectivism and eclecticism: facts are thrown in or omitted in a completely erratic fashion, based not on the objective course of historical developments but on the requirements of Snyder’s “narrative.” Thoughts and motives are ascribed to historical actors without any serious examination of the social and economic context within which their decisions and actions are taking place and more often than not without any documentary basis. ![]()
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