Important Book Launch - October 22, 2010

[Hannia]

Book launch – "Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin" with author, Timothy Snyder.

Friday, October 22
7:30 p.m.
Meet the author!
Book signing!
The Ukrainian Museum
222 East Sixth Street
(between 2nd & 3rd Avenues)
New York, New York 10003
Tel: 212.228.0110

Americans call the Second World War "The Good War." But before it even began, America's wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own Ukrainian citizens ‒ and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was finally defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. At war's end, both the German and the Soviet killing sites fell behind the iron curtain, leaving the history of mass killing in darkness.

Bloodlands is a new kind of European history, presenting the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes as two aspects of a single history, in the time and place where they occurred: between Germany and Russia, when Hitler and Stalin both held power.

Beginning with Ukraine's Holodomor (the Great Famine of 1932-33 engineered by Stalin and his administration), Snyder painstakingly details the horrors later inflicted upon Belarusyns, Poles, and Jews.

"During the years that both Stalin and Hitler were in power, far more people were killed in Ukraine than anywhere else in the Bloodlands, or in Europe, or in the World."
– Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin

Assiduously researched, deeply humane, and utterly definitive, Bloodlands will be required reading for anyone seeking to understand the central tragedy of modern history.

Copies of Bloodlands will be available for sale at the Museum during the book launch. The evening will conclude with a wine-and-cheese reception.

Tickets: $15; $10 members and seniors; $5 students

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Snyder shows that Hitler used the Holodomor/Famine to rally support of the Germans who looked in disbelief as the rest of the world gave a prize to Walter Duranty ( NY Times) for the cover up of the Ukrainian genocide. This anti-Bolshevik movement then morphed into the antisemitic one that resulted in the Holocaust 10 years later.

This is the first book in recent memory to lay out this critical linkage.

[sjoyce]

Thank you Hannia for this information. Do you know if the book will be available at the museum or elsewhere after the book signing. I would love to buy a couple of copies.

[Hannia]

Joyce,

You can get it thru Amazon now.

Another book I can wholeheartedly recommend is A SHORT HISTORY OF TRACTORS IN UKRAINIAN by Marina Lewycka. It's one big belly laugh after another. My husband and I spent time reading it to one another and there were moments when we were rolling on the floor laughing.

[IreneLviv]

I read it both in English and in Russian
Russian translation is awful - it has nothing to do with the original version - the purpose of translation was to show hatred against Ukrainians and mock them
If I were Maryna Lewycka I would file a claim against this translator

[Hannia]

The book in English is a literary jewel. It is seriously funny. The author constantly reminds one that the human condition is so much funnier than we think.

[sjoyce]

Thanks Hannia:
I will check Amazon for both books. I was at my dentist a few weeks ago and her new hygenist suggested "A Short History Of Tractors in Ukraine" I think she was telling everyone in the chair that day, that it is worth a read

Joyce

[IreneLviv]

Hannia have you read anything by Joanne Harris? I enjoy her books very much