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Dear Friends, It is our great pleasure to announce the inauguration of the Polish Lecture Series, presented by Florida International University (FIU) in collaboration with the American Institute of Polish Culture and the Honorary Consulate of the Republic of Poland. The first lecture in the series, "Poles and Stalinist Terror," will be delivered by Dr. Timothy Snyder, noted author and history professor at Yale University.
With kindest regards, Blanka Rosenstiel Honorary Consul of the Republic of Poland Founder and President Beata Paszyc Honorary Vice Consul of the Republic of Poland Executive Director The American Institute of Polish Culture Inc. 1440 79th Street Causeway, Suite 117 Miami, FL 33141 Phone: 305 864-2349 Fax: 305-865-5150 |
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BLOODLANDS: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
By: Thimoty Snader
In this sweeping account, award-winning historian Timothy Snyder explains the origins of the killing policies of both Hitler and Stalin, and describes their lethal consequences for the peoples between Berlin and Moscow. He provides a new understanding of Hitler's Holocaust, Stalin's Terror, and the age of mass killing. This is the history of the greatest calamity of our time. |
 "For over a decade in the middle of the twentieth century, the lands between Russia and Germany were the killing fields of Europe. Tens of millions of civilians from Poland to Ukraine, Lithuania to Belarus were starved, beaten, shot and gassed to death by the authorities and armies of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Path-breaking and often courageous, Timothy Snyder's account of the methods and motives of murderous regimes, both at home and in foreign war, will radically revise our appreciation of the implications of mass extermination in the recent past. Bloodlands - impeccably researched and appropriately sensitive to its volatile material - is the most important book to appear on this subject for decades and will surely become the reference in its field." - Tony Judt, author of Postwar and Ill Fares the Land "A chillingly systematic study of the mass murder mutually perpetrated by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.... A significant work of staggering figures and scholarship." -Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"Nearly seventy years after VE-Day, World War Two continues to be perceived through a narrow Western perspective, and many basic problems about the war of 1939-1945 remain unresolved. In Bloodlands - which refers to the huge belt of territory between Germany and Russia - Timothy Snyder examines the little known tract of the European continent that was scourged by Stalin as well as Hitler, and reaches some disturbing conclusions. Combining formidable linguistic and detective skills with a fine sense of impartiality, he tackles vital questions which have deterred less courageous historians: Where and when were the largest casualties inflicted? Who were the perpetrators, and which ethnic and national groups were victimized? How can one calculate and verify the numbers? This is a book which will force its readers to rethink history." -Norman Davies, F.B.A., and author of Europe: A History
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Excerpt from the Preface to Bloodlands
This is a history of political mass murder. The fourteen million were always victims of a Soviet or Nazi killing policy, often of an interaction between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, but never casualties of the war between them. A quarter of them were killed before the Second World War even began. A further two hundred thousand died between 1939 and 1941, while Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were not only at peace, but allies. The deaths of the fourteen million were sometimes projected in economic plans...
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About Timothy Snader  Professor of History at Yale University. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford, and has held fellowships in Paris, Vienna, Warsaw, and at Harvard. His writing has appeared in the New York Review of Books, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, The New Republic, The Nation, and The Times Literary Supplement. His four previous books have all received awards, including the George Louis Beer Prize for The Reconstruction of Nations and the Pro Historia Polonorum for Sketches from a Secret War. His most recent work is The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke (Basic Books). He lives in New Haven, Connecticut. |
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Polish American Chamber of Commerce of Florida and the Americas (PACCFA) is pleased to recommend and invite you to the inauguration of the Polish Lecture Series, presented by Florida International University (FIU) in collaboration with the American Institute of Polish Culture and the Honorary Consulate of the Republic of Poland.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Best regards, 
Leszek Ladowski
President Polish American Chamber of Commerce
of Florida and the Americas, Inc.
Direct: 305-300-2100
E-Fax: 305-908-8688
E-Mail: leszek@polishamericanchamber.com
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