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020			_a9781847924889
040			_cYeshi
082			_a321.9 SNY
100			_aSnyder, Timothy.
245			_aOn tyranny : _btwenty lessons from the twentieth century / _cSnyder, Timothy.
260			_aLondon : _bThe Bodley Head, _c2017.
300			_a126 p. : _c20 cm.
520			_aHistory does not repeat, but it does instruct. In the twentieth century, European democracies collapsed into fascism, Nazism and communism. These were movements in which a leader or a party claimed to give voice to the people, promised to protect them from global existential threats, and rejected reason in favour of myth. European history shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary people can find themselves in unimaginable circumstances. History can familiarise, and it can warn. Today, we are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to totalitarianism in the twentieth century. But when the political order seems imperilled, our advantage is that we can learn from their experience to resist the advance of tyranny. Now is a good time to do so.
650			_aDespotism.
650			_aHistory, Modern _y20th century.
650			_aPolitical ethics.
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