Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder
Born	Timothy David Snyder 1969 (age 55–56) Dayton, Ohio, U.S.
Spouse	Marci Shore ​ (m. 2005)​
Children	2
Awards	George Louis Beer Prize (2003)[1] Hannah Arendt Prize (2013) The VIZE 97 Prize (2015)
Academic background
Education	Brown University (BA) Balliol College, Oxford (DPhil)
Academic work
Sub-discipline	History of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust
Institutions	Yale University London School of Economics College of Europe

Timothy David Snyder (born 1969)^[2] is an American historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust. He is on leave from his position as the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University, with plans to transfer to the University of Toronto for an indefinite time.^[3] He is a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.^[4][5] Snyder serves on the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Timothy Snyder holds the inaugural Chair in Modern European History, supported by the Temerty Endowment for Ukrainian Studies, at the Munk School at the University of Toronto. As of 2025, he is on leave from his position at Yale University and will teach at the Munk School in the 2025–26 academic year.^[6]

Snyder has written several books, including Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2010), On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (2017), The Road to Unfreedom (2018), and Our Malady (2020). Several of them have been described as best-sellers.^[7][8]

Snyder was born in 1969,^[9] in the Dayton, Ohio, area, the son of Christine Hadley Snyder, a teacher, accountant, and homemaker, and Estel Eugene Snyder, a veterinarian.^[10] Snyder's parents were married in a Quaker ceremony in 1963 in Ohio, and his mother was active in preserving her family farmstead as a Quaker historic site. Snyder attended Centerville High School. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in history and political science from Brown University and his D.Phil. degree in modern history in 1995 at the University of Oxford while under the supervision of Timothy Garton Ash and Jerzy Jedlicki. He was a Marshall Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford, from 1991 to 1994.^[11][12][13]

Snyder held fellowships at the French National Centre for Scientific Research in Paris from 1994 to 1995, the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna in 1996, the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University in 1997, and was an Academy Scholar at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University from 1998 to 2001.

He has been an instructor at the College of Europe Natolin Campus, the Baron Velge Chair at the Université libre de Bruxelles, the Cleveringa Chair at the Leiden University, Philippe Romain Chair at the London School of Economics, and the 2013 René Girard Lecturer at Stanford University.^[14][15][16] For the academic year 2013–2014, he held the Philippe Roman Chair of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science.^[17] Prior to assuming the Richard C. Levin Professorship of History at Yale, Snyder was the Bird White Housum Professor of History at Yale University.

He is a member of the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.^[18] On September 25, 2020, he was named as one of the 25 members of the "Real Facebook Oversight Board", an independent group monitoring Facebook.^[19] He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Modern European History and East European Politics and Societies.^[20]

Snyder has written fifteen books and co-edited two. Snyder speaks five European languages and reads ten, enabling easier use of primary and archival sources in Germany and Central Europe during his research.^[21] Snyder has stressed that knowing other languages is very important for his field, saying "If you don't know Russian, you don't really know what you're missing."^[22]

Snyder's first book was the 1998 Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Central Europe: A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz. It is a study in nationalism through the analysis of the life of Polish thinker Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz.^[23]

In 2003, he published The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569–1999. It focuses on the last few hundred years of history of several Central and Eastern European countries.^[24][25]

In 2005, he published Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine. It is a study on the interwar history of the Second Polish Republic and Soviet Ukraine through the prism of the life of Henryk Józewski.^[26]

In 2008, he published The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke. The book is an analysis of the life of Wilhelm von Habsburg.^[27]

In 2010, Snyder published Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. It was a best seller^[28] and has been translated into 30 languages.^[29][20] In an interview with Slovene historian Luka Lisjak Gabrijelčič in 2016, Snyder described the book as an attempt to overcome the limitations of national history in explaining the political crimes perpetrated in Eastern Europe in the 1930s and 1940s:

The point of Bloodlands was that we hadn't noticed a major event in European history: the fact 13 million civilians were murdered for political reasons in a rather confined space over a short period of time. The question of the book was: 'How this could have happened?' We have some history of Soviet terror, of the Holocaust, of the Ukrainian famine, of the German reprisals against the civilians. But all of these crimes happened in the same places in a short time span, so why not treat them as a single event and see if they can be unified under a meaningful narrative.^[30]

Bloodlands received reviews ranging from highly critical to "rapturous".^[31][32] In assessing these reviews, Jacques Sémelin described it as one of those books that "change the way we look at a period in history".^[32] Sémelin noted that some historians have criticized the chronological construction of events, the arbitrary geographical delimitation, Snyder's numbers on victims and violence, and a lack of focus on interactions between different actors.^[32]

Omer Bartov wrote that "the book presents no new evidence and makes no new arguments",^[33] and in a highly critical review Richard Evans wrote that, because of its lack of causal argument, "Snyder's book is of no use", and that Snyder "hasn't really mastered the voluminous literature on Hitler's Germany", which "leads him into error in a number of places" regarding the politics of Nazi Germany.^[34]

On the other hand, Wendy Lower wrote that it was a "masterful synthesis",^[35] John Connelly called it "morally informed scholarship of the highest calibre",^[36] and Christopher Browning described it as "stunning".^[31] The journal Contemporary European History published a special forum on the book in 2012, featuring reviews by Mark Mazower, Dan Diner, Thomas Kühne, and Jörg Baberowski, as well as an introduction and response by Snyder.^[37]

Snyder's 2012 book Thinking the Twentieth Century was co-authored with Tony Judt while Judt was in the late stages of ALS disease. The book is based primarily on material by Judt, edited by Snyder. It presents Judt's view on the history of the twentieth century.^[38][39]

Snyder published Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning in 2015. The book, offering a "radically new explanation" of the Holocaust,^[40] received mixed reviews.^[31]

In 2017, he published On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, a short book about how to prevent a democracy from becoming a tyranny, with a focus on modern United States politics and on what he called "America's turn towards authoritarianism".^[41][42] The book topped The New York Times Best Seller list for paperback nonfiction in 2017^[28] and remained on bestseller lists as late as 2021.^[43][44] On Tyranny has been featured in a rap song^[45] and in poster exhibitions.^[46][47]

In 2018, he published The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America. The book explores Russian attempts to influence Western democracies and the influence of philosopher Ivan Ilyin on Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian Federation in general.^[48][49][50]

In 2020, he published a book on the American health care system, Our Malady.^[51]

In 2024, he published On Freedom, a book about how freedom has been misunderstood and needs to be redefined.^[52]

Snyder has published essays in publications such as the International Herald Tribune, The Nation, Foreign Affairs,^[53] New York Review of Books,^[54] The New York Times,^[55] The Times Literary Supplement, The New Republic, Eurozine, Tygodnik Powszechny, the Chicago Tribune, and The Christian Science Monitor.

Although primarily a scholar of twentieth century Eastern European history, in the mid-2010s Snyder became interested in U.S. history, contemporary politics, international relations, digital politics, health, and education. He has said that the defunding of departments of history and the humanities since the supposed post-Soviet end of history have led to a society without the "concepts and references" or structural tools to discuss eroding factors such as modern forms of populism.^[56]

In interviews with The Guardian for the article "Putin, Trump, Ukraine: how Timothy Snyder became the leading interpreter of our dark times",^[42] Snyder described history as "a constant, exciting discovery of things that actually happened, which weren't anticipated and which were probably considered wildly improbable at the time. (...) And once you know that, then you can have the intuition that, well, maybe in this moment right now there's something happening which people aren't seeing." Drawing on the lessons of European history, Snyder brought into American political discussion the terms big lie, in reference to Donald Trump's claim that he won the 2020 election,^[57][58][59] and memory laws, to describe Republican state legislators' bills designed to guide and control American understanding of the past, in some cases affirming free speech while banning divisive speech.^[60][61]

External videos
Ukraine: From Propaganda to Reality, Chicago Humanities Festival, 57:35, November 14, 2014

Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the bombing of its energy infrastructure, Snyder has spoken and written widely on the history of Ukraine and its worldwide importance for democracy, on the disastrous geopolitical effects of the invasion, and on the need for other nations and individuals to stand for the protection of territory belonging to that state. Snyder has said "The fact that we have democracies at all is kind of remarkable", that democracy means that "the people have to rule, and they have to want to rule", warning against reliance on larger historical forces to bring democracy about.^[62]

Snyder launched a $1.25m crowdfunding to upgrade Ukraine's air defense.^[63][64] According to Snyder, the only way to end the war is for Putin's Russia to "win by losing", because only if Ukraine wins will it be possible for the dictator to leave the scene, and for the country to start a democratic process that will benefit Russia itself. Snyder is on the list of 200 Americans barred from entering Russian territory, under sanctions announced by the Russian government in November 2022.^[65]

In 2015, Snyder delivered a series of lectures in Kyiv, Dnipro, and Kharkiv. The lectures, which were delivered in Ukrainian, were open to the public and focused on Snyder's historical research as well as the contemporary political situation in Ukraine.^[66]

In The Road to Unfreedom, Snyder argues that Vladimir Putin's government in Russia is authoritarian, and that it uses fascist ideas in its rhetoric.^[67] In December 2018, during a discussion with a fellow historian of Eastern Europe, John Connelly, Snyder referred to this as "schizo-fascism":^[68]

fascist ideas have come to Russia at a historical moment, three generations after the Second World War, when it's impossible for Russians to think of themselves as fascist. The entire meaning of the war in Soviet education was as an anti-fascist struggle, where the Russians are on the side of the good and the fascists are the enemy. So there's this odd business, which I call in the book "schizo-fascism", where people who are themselves unambiguously fascists refer to others as fascists.

Snyder has drawn the parallel between Hitler's rationale for territorial expansion and that of Putin. He predicted Russia's invasion of Crimea, outlining specific threats of an invasion in the New York Times op-ed "Don't Let Putin Grab Ukraine" on February 3, 2014, and said that Putin's rhetoric resembles Hitler's to the point of plagiarism: both claimed that a neighboring democracy was somehow tyrannical, both appealed to imaginary violations of minority rights as a reason to invade, both argued that a neighboring nation did not really exist and that its state was illegitimate.^[69]

Marlène Laruelle commented^[31] that "Contrary to [Snyder's] claims, the Kremlin does not live in an ideological world inspired by Nazi Germany, but in one in which the Yalta decades, the Gorbachev-Yeltsin years, and the collapse of the Soviet Union still constitute the main historical referents and traumas."^[70]

On March 14, 2023, Snyder briefed the United Nations Security Council in a meeting called by Russia to address Russophobia. Snyder said that the term "Russophobia" was used by Russia to justify its war crimes in Ukraine, and that harm done to Russians and Russian culture is primarily due to Moscow's own policies and actions, which resulted in driving Russian emigration following the invasion, suppression of independent media, attacks on cultural assets and landmarks, and mass killings of Russian speakers and citizens. After he was challenged by the Russian representative, Vasily Nebenzya, for sources, Snyder referred to Putin's statements denying the existence of Ukraine.^[71]

Snyder has written six books on Ukraine^[72] and in 2022, to explain the origins and course of the Russo-Ukrainian war, he made his Yale lecture series The Making of Modern Ukraine available to the general public on YouTube^[73] and as a podcast series^[74] along with the syllabus and reading list.^[75] The course had been viewed by millions by November 2022.^[76] He has spoken^[77] and written about the war in the press and he publishes history and commentary in his online newsletter "Thinking About..."^[78]

Olena Zelenska, First Lady of Ukraine, met with Snyder to discuss the mental health and resilience of Ukrainians at the Yalta European Strategy Annual Meeting in September 2023.^[79]

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Snyder criticized the premise behind “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” a March 27, 2025 presidential executive order, as asserting the government’s monopoly on the truth while identifying all else as ideology or propaganda, stating, “The truth is never, never with those who hold power. The truth is with everyone else.” He cites “the need for memory and for discussion of events that make us uncomfortable — as good history always will…Loving our country means knowing about our country. And knowing about our country means learning the things that we don't know, and sometimes the things that we don't want to know.”^[80]

Snyder states that Americans are negotiating on the side of the aggressors, publicly conceding Ukrainian territory, NATO membership, timing of elections, and even the country’s very existence before talks start, while attempting to seize the sovereign country’s mineral resources under threat of Russian violence. Ukraine is the victim of a colonial war in which theft of resources, including children, is the intent. Snyder provides the Munich accords of 1938, the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact of 1939, and the broader history of colonialism as precedents for the exclusion of Ukraine from talks representing an attack on its sovereignty.^[81]

On February 5, 2025, Timothy Snyder said of Elon Musk’s attempt to seize control of the U.S. Treasury system: “of course it’s a coup.” Historically, he explains, centers of power were physical places and coups consisted of armed assaults on government buildings. In this era of digital power, young men in civilian clothes with portable drives, under orders completely devoid of legal authority, have broken into computer systems.^[82][83]

Snyder has described Trump as Russia’s "only chance of winning the war", describing their thought process as "We just need to stay on the battlefield to January 25 [2025] and then the floodgates will open for us, because we’re going to have our guy." He adds "I think the throughline for Trump, going all the way back to the 1980s...has always been submissiveness towards the power in the Kremlin...in his entire career, Trump has seemed to enjoy being bullied by Putin." Snyder notes that the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for Trump’s return through "laughable" rulings on immunity and on the US Constitution’s third section of the Fourteenth Amendment disqualifying insurrectionists from federal office.^[84]

In the first chapter of his book On Tyranny, Snyder elaborates "vorauseilender Gehorsam", the concept of obedience that hurries out ahead, dating from 1933 Germany^[85] and expressed most clearly in public haste to comply with Hitler shortly after his election, enabling him to seize additional powers, and during the 1938 Anschluss when Austrians were quicker to accommodate the joining of their country to Germany than even Hitler himself expected. Snyder's formulation of "anticipatory obedience" and the exhortation "do not obey in advance" have become part of international discourse. Says Snyder: "Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given... In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do."

In response to a request from the United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, Timothy Snyder provided written and oral testimony^[86][87] for the April 17, 2024, session: "Defending America from the Chinese Communist Party's Political Warfare, Part I." Snyder urged Congress to understand political warfare as "someone else trying to get you to do something you ought not to". He emphasized the role Americans play in the efforts of hostile foreign powers to exploit domestic weaknesses using divisive propaganda intended to show that democracy is impotent, hypocritical, and not worth defending. These messages are successful only when echoed by politicians, billionaires and other citizens, some unknowingly, but against their own self-interest. Financial vulnerability of politicians is an opening for psychological operations by hostile actors as it renders targets susceptible to manipulation by their foreign patrons. Political warfare conducted by authoritarian regimes where corruption is normal promotes messages that aim to normalize corruption externally in America and elsewhere.

Snyder asserted the centrality of the war in Ukraine to the general problem of political warfare. In this war, international order, the reputation of democracy and alliance structures are all at stake. While Americans may not see the connections, Beijing and Taiwan are clear that Ukraine's self-defense deters Chinese aggression in the Pacific.^[88] He described the increasing conformity of Chinese propaganda methods and themes with those used by Russian disinformation campaigns designed to promote American inaction and interfere with elections, backing candidates most likely to support authoritarian regimes. Common tropes in the Russian information war against Ukraine are: Ukrainians are Nazis, the Ukraine war is all about NATO enlargement, Ukraine is corrupt, democracy is powerless to do anything about Ukraine, Americans should pay attention to the border and not do anything about Ukraine, and Joseph Biden has accepted bribes.^[89]

In written testimony and during the oral hearings, Snyder and members of Congress gave examples of Marjorie Taylor Greene, JD Vance, and Donald Trump publicly promoting foreign propaganda tropes. Snyder responded directly to Greene's oral testimony suggesting significant Nazi influence in Ukraine with the fact that no far-right party in Ukraine has ever gotten more than 3% of a national vote.^[90] Snyder explained that availability of propaganda memes and messages from outlets like X (Twitter) obviates the need for direct contact between the Americans who spread them and the foreign actors and their media outlets who source them originally. When government or self-policing of hostile foreign propaganda by social media has been attempted, it is successful, but X (Twitter), notably, has refused to self-regulate.^[91]

On April 10, 2024, Snyder joined with more than 35 musicians, actors, thinkers, historians, entrepreneurs, and diplomats in an appeal^[92] to Congress for aid to Ukraine in defense of democracy and in the fight "for our safety and for everyone's freedom." The open letter states that Ukrainian resistance to Russian dictatorship protects the international order, makes other wars in Europe impossible, and supports American interests, deterring China without provoking Beijing.

Snyder likened NBC's pre-2024 election hiring of former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel to the anticipatory obedience he described in his book On Tyranny: "Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked." In an interview with NBC's sister station MSNBC, he cited McDaniel's role in trying to disassemble our democracy and said: "What NBC is doing is saying, 'Well, [it] could be that in '24 our entire system will break down. Could be we'll have an authoritarian leader. Oh, but look, we've made this adjustment in advance because we've brought into the middle of NBC somebody who has already taken part in an attempt to take our system down,'" adding, "If you are going to be on American media, you should be somebody who believes there is something called truth, there are things called facts and you can pursue them."^[93]

Asked in early 2017 how the agenda of the Trump administration compared with Adolf Hitler's rise to power, Snyder said that history "does not repeat. But it does offer us examples and patterns, and thereby enlarges our imaginations and creates more possibilities for anticipation and resistance".^[94] Elaborating in 2021 on the resonance of Nazi history within Donald Trump's claim to a landslide victory, Snyder recalled the German Reich's "stab in the back" lie that its army did not really lose the First World War, but rather, Jews and left-wingers betrayed "true Germans" on the home front, leading to defeat. This lie, when repeated and expanded by Hitler to a claim that Jews were responsible for everything that is wrong, fueled anti-Semitism and led to the Holocaust.^[95]

Trump's "big lie" tears the very fabric of factuality, said Snyder, echoing Hannah Arendt, by denying verifiable reality and forcing believers to accept an illogical premise that Democrats rigged the 2020 election only for the presidency and not for members of Congress. It requires adoption of a conspiracy theory in which everyone is against the believer, and the high stakes of the lie demand action including violence.^[96]

In January 2021 Snyder published an essay in The New York Times on the future of the GOP in response to the siege of the United States Capitol, blaming Trump and his "enablers", Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley, for the insurrection fueled by their claims of election fraud, writing that "the breakers have an even stronger reason to see Trump disappear: It is impossible to inherit from someone who is still around. Seizing Trump's big lie might appear to be a gesture of support. In fact, he observed, a big lie can survive the liar, and in the case of Cruz and Hawley, it expresses a wish for Trump's political death."^[97][98]

In a May 2017 interview with Salon, he warned that the Trump administration would attempt to subvert democracy by declaring a state of emergency and take full control of the government, similar to Hitler's Reichstag fire: "it's pretty much inevitable that they will try".^[99] He repeated the warning in Commonweal on November 2, 2020: "The plan is not to win the popular (or even the electoral) vote, but rather to stay in power some other way."^[100] According to Snyder, "Trump's campaign for president of the United States was basically a Russian operation."^[101] Snyder also warned that Trump's lies would lead to tyranny, as democracy is impossible in a society divided between true believers and everyone else, asserting that the only cure is truth.^[101][102]

In 1994, Snyder married fellow academic Milada Vachudova, with whom he also collaborated on scholarly work.^[103][104] Snyder's second marriage was in 2005 to Marci Shore, a professor of European cultural and intellectual history at Yale University. The couple have two children together and reside in New Haven, Connecticut.^[105][106]

In December 2019, Snyder fell seriously ill following a series of medical misdiagnoses. While recuperating through the coronavirus pandemic he wrote Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary, about the problems of the for-profit health care system in the USA, and the coronavirus response so far.^[58][107]

In 2025, Snyder and his wife moved from the United States to Canada, citing what they perceived as America's descent into fascism.^[108]

On November 2, 2022, Timothy Snyder became the tenth ambassador of UNITED24,^[109] where he completed a fundraiser to collect donations for a system to counter Russian unmanned aerial vehicles in Ukraine, thereby protecting Ukraine's critical infrastructure.^[42][110] On August 18, 2024, joined by Mark Hamill, he launched the United24 Safe Terrain Initiative funding mine clearing robots to rid Ukrainian lands of explosive ordnance, reduce risks for sappers, and allow people to return to their businesses and farms.^[111][112]

Through the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, Austria, he leads the "Documenting Ukraine" project to support journalists, scholars, artists, public intellectuals, and archivists based in Ukraine in their efforts to create a factual record of the war.^[113]

Starting in November 2023, Snyder began leading 90 scholars in the "Ukrainian History Global Initiative" to study Ukraine and its history. The initiative is a charitable foundation that will include disciplines beyond history and sponsor three major academic conferences, various publications, and archaeological excavations.^[114][115]

• 2024 Pell Center Prize for Story in the Public Square, Salve Regina University^[116]
• 2024 Transatlantic Bridge Award of The Delegation of the European Union to the United States^[117]
• 2023 Medal of the Learned society of the Czech Republic,^[118]
• 2023 The Robert B. Silvers Prize for Journalism (Silvers-Dudley Prize)^[119]
• 2022 All European Academies Madame de Staël Prize^[120]
• 2018 Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science,^[121] the highest scientific honor in Poland
• 2016 Gustav Ranis International History Prize^[122]
• 2016 Man of the Year, Gazeta Wyborcza, Warsaw, Poland^{[123][circular reference]}
• 2015 The VIZE 97 Prize from the Václav Havel Foundation^[124]
• 2015 Carnegie Fellowship^[125]
• 2014 Antonovych prize^[125]
• 2013 Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought^[126] for Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Basic Books, 2010)
• 2013 Le Prix du livre d’Histoire de l’Europe^[127]
• 2012 Prakhin International Literary Award for the Truth about Holocaust and Stalinist Repression Honorary Mention for Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Basic Books, 2010)^[128]
• 2012 Kazimierz Moczarski Historic Award for Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin^[129]
• 2012 Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding
• 2012 Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters^[130]
• 2012 Wacław Jędrzejewicz History Medal^[131]
• 2011 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award by Phi Beta Kappa society
• 2008-2009, 2004 American Association for Ukrainian Studies Book Prize^[132]
• 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship^[133]
• 2003 George Louis Beer Prize for The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569–1999^[134]
• 2003 Przegląd Wschodni (Eastern Review) Best Foreign Academic Book^[134]
• 1998 The Oskar Halecki Polish History Award from the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America^[135]

State Decorations and Orders

• Star of Lithuanian Diplomacy^[125][136]
• Commander's Cross of the Order for Merits to Lithuania^[137]
• Polish Bene Merito honorary badge^[125]
• Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland^[125]
• Estonian Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana Class III^[125]
• Austrian Decoration for Science and Art, Republic of Austria^[138]

Honorary Doctorates

• National University of Kharkiv (Karazin)^[139]
• Ukrainian Free University^[140]
• Lund University, Faculty of Humanities^[141][142]
• Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (UMCS), Lublin^[143]

• Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Central Europe: A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz. Harvard University Press, 1998. ISBN 978-0-19-084608-4
• Wall Around the West: State Power and Immigration Controls in Europe and North America. Rowman and Littlefield, 2000. Co-edited with Peter Andreas. ISBN 978-0-7425-0178-2
• The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569–1999. Yale University Press, 2003. ISBN 978-0-300-09569-2
• Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine. Yale University Press, 200. ISBN 978-0-300-12599-3
• The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke. Basic Books, 2008. ISBN 978-0-465-01897-0
• Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. Basic Books, 2010. ISBN 978-0-465-03147-4
• Thinking the Twentieth Century with Tony Judt. Penguin, 2012. ISBN 978-0-14-312304-0
• Stalin and Europe: Imitation and Domination, 1928–1953. Oxford University Press, 2014. Co-edited with Ray Brandon. ISBN 978-0199945580
• Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning. Penguin, 2015. ISBN 978-1-101-90347-6
• On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. Penguin, 2017. ISBN 978-0-8041-9011-4
  • On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. Ten Speed Press. ISBN 978-1-9848-5915-0
• The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America. Penguin, 2018. ISBN 978-0-525-57447-7
• Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary. Penguin, 2020. ISBN 978-0-593-23889-9
• On Freedom. Crown, 2024. ISBN 978-0-593-72872-7

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