Books

Thinking the Twentieth Century (Tony Judt with Timothy Snyder)

Penguin, February 2012, UK edition Heineman 2012.
Translations: Brazil: Objetiva; France: Hlose d'Ormesson; Germany: Hanser; Italy: Laterza;
Korea: Planet; Netherlands: Contact; Poland: Rebis; Portugal: Edies 70; Spain: Taurus;
Greece: Potamos Publishers.

Distinctions: Financial Times best book of the first half of 2012; Observor paperback of the
week 2013; Irish Times book to read in 2012; Christian Science Monitor nonfiction book to
watch; New York Times Editors Choice; Macleans Bestsellers week of February 13, 2013;
Brown University Book Award.

Reviews: Publishers Weekly, The Bookbag, The Spectator, Prospect Magazine, The Atlantic,
The New York Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, NPR, LA Review, Denver Post, Boston
Globe, Kirkus Review, Foreign Affairs, Macleans, Tablet Magazine, Jewish Journal, Globe and
Mail, Sunday Times, Times of London, New Yorker Blog.

Links to Reviews:
Financial Times: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/4130a414-4909-11e1-88f0-
00144feabdc0.html#axzz2OaB2uvsD
Macleans: http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/04/24/thinking-the-twentieth-century/
New Yorker Blog: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/05/what-were-reading-
tony-judt-joan-didion-hilary-mantel-more.html
LA Times: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/18/entertainment/la-ca-tony-judt-20120318


Bloodlands: Eastern Europe Between Hitler and Stalin,
Basic Books, 2010, UK edition Bodley Head/ 2010, Vintage Paperbacks, 2011.
Translations (29 editions, 26 languages): Hebrew/Keter Publishing House;
Romanian/Humanitas; Estonian/Varrak; Ukrainian/Hrani-T; German/Beck Verlag; Dutch/Ambo
Anthos; Norwegian/Gyldendal; Portuguese (Brazil)/Editora Record; Portuguese
(European)/Bertrand Editora; Russian/Eksmo; Italian/RCS Rizzoli Libri; Polish/Swiat Ksiazki;
Spanish (Latin America)/Editorial Norma; Spanish (Europe)/Circulo de Leitores;
Swedish/Bonnier Fakta; French/Gallimard; Danish/Politikens Forlag; Japanese/Chikuma;
Romanian/Humanitas; Lithuanian/Tyto Alba; Latvian/Jumava; Korean/Sapiens21;
Czech/Paseka; Hungarian/Park; Belarusian/Medisont; Georgian/Radarami; Slovak: Premedia.

Review forums:
Contemporary European History:
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8521117 ,
Journal of Genocide Research:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14623528.2011.606703 ,
H-Diplo: http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-
diplo&month=1109&week=b&msg=5l1HypQsLuOl7zLCK5B4Eg&user=&pw= ,
Le Dbat
Journal of Modern European History:
http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/zeitschriften/ausgabe=7434


Reviews:
The Australian; Boston Globe; The Browser; Canadian Jewish News; Commonweal; The
Economist: Financial Times: The Guardian; Harper's; BBC History Magazine; Esprit; Foreign
Affairs; Harpers; Hoover Policy Review; Internet Review of Books; Irish Times; The Jewish
Forward (in Yiddish); Jewish Journal; Jewish Tribune; Kiev Post: Kindle Blog; Literary
Review; Macleans; Moscow News; The Nation; The National; The National Review; The New
Republic; The New Statesman; The New York Review of Books; New York Times; The New
Yorker (twice); Ottawa Citizen; Polish-American Journal; Political Quarterly; Prague Post; La
Repubblica; Sarasota Herald-Tribune; Seattle Times; Slate; Spokane Exchange; Swedish Radio;
Tablet; Times of London; Wall Street Journal; Washington Monthly; Washington Post; Wichita
Eagle; Winnipeg Free Press; Yad Vashem Journal; Berlingske Tidende (Denmark); Den;
Elsevier; El Espectador; Europa (Italy); Il Giornale (Italy); Gteburgs-Posten; Gazeta
Wyborcza; Kristeligt-Dagblad; Krytyka (Kiev); Kultura Liberalna; NRC Handelsblat; Politiken;
Polityka; Die Presse; Przegld Polityczny; Respekt (Czech Republic); Trouw; Ukraina
Moderna; Istorychna pravda (Ukraine); Die Welt; Die Welt am Sonntag, El Pais, El Mundo.

Links to Reviews:
Boston Globe:
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/03/13/exploring_the_bloodlands/ ;
Commonweal; http://commonwealmagazine.org/europe%E2%80%99s-darkest-hours;
The Economist: http://www.economist.com/node/17249038;
Financial Times: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/b4ac852e-e2e0-11df-9735-
00144feabdc0.html#axzz2OPiePCcC;
The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/oct/09/bloodlands-stalin-timothy-snyder-
review ;
Harper's: http://www.scribd.com/doc/60460278/Article-Harper-s-February-2011-Adam-
Hochschild-Reviews-Timothy-Snyder-s-Blood-Lands ;
Foreign Affairs: http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/67168/timothy-snyder/bloodlands-
europe-between-hitler-and-stalin ;
Harpers: http://www.scribd.com/doc/121822733/Reviews-Timothy-Snyder-s-Blood-Lands-
Article-Harper-s-February-2011 ;
Hoover Policy Review: http://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/80201 ;
Internet Review of Books: http://internetreviewofbooks.blogspot.com/2011/04/bloodlands.html ;
Jewish Journal:
http://www.jewishjournal.com/twelvetwelve/item/turning_numbers_into_people_39101231/ ;
Jewish Tribune: http://www.jewishtribune.ca/uncategorized/2010/12/19/nazi-germany-fought-
many-different-wars-in-ww-ii ;
LA Review of Books: http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?id=1013&fulltext=1;
Literary Review: http://www.literaryreview.co.uk/rayfield_09_10.html
London Review of Books: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n21/richard-j-evans/who-remembers-the-
poles ;
The Nation: http://www.thenation.com/article/156518/between-hitler-and-stalin;
The National: http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/books/bloodlands-europe-between-hitler-
and-stalin ;
The National Review: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/262400/naming-crime-andrew-
stuttaford ;
The New Republic: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/79084/snyder-
bloodlands-hitler-stalin ;
The New Statesman: http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2010/11/million-soviet-snyder-
europe . http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/cultural-capital/2010/12/soviet-snyder-history-
europe
The New York Review of Books: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/nov/11/worst-
madness/?pagination=false ;
New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/books/review/Rubenstein-
t.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1364085045-Kcq+K7BpkyYJcNkhHnGNkA ;
Wall Street Journal:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703794104575546611651621270.html ;
Washington Post
:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpyn/content/article/2010/12/16/AR2010121605725.html ;
Vienna Review of Books: http://www.viennareview.net/vienna-review-book-reviews/book-
reviews/it-tolls-for-thee;

Books of the Year and Press Distinctions:
Books of the Year: The Independent, The Financial Times; The Economist, The Telegraph, The
New Statesman, The Atlantic, BBC History Magazine, The Seattle Times, History Today, The
Jewish Forward, Reason Magazine. Editor's Pick, New York Times Book Review; Paperback
Row, New York Times Book Review; Die Welt, Best Book on the History of Catastrophe, Wall
Street Journal; Book of the Week; NRC Handelsblad, Book of the Week, El Pas, Book of the
Week; NDR Sachbuch des Monats; New York Times non-fiction bestseller, Der Spiegel non-
fiction bestseller (Germany); Gazeta Wyborcza non-fiction bestseller (Poland); Dziennik Polski
bestseller (Poland), Wall Street Journal #1 hardback history bestseller.

Links to Books of the Year:

The Financial Times: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/93929334-f8e2-11df-99ed-
00144feab49a.html#axzz2OaB2uvsD ;
The Economist: http://www.economist.com/node/17626972;
The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/12/books-of-the-year/308323/ ;
Paperback Row: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/books/review/paperback-
row.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1364241103-AeQM1CpcX4JhGHWMjS4BSw

Prizes:
Le Prix du livre dHistoire de lEurope 2013. Moczarski Prize in History; Literature Award,
American Academy of Arts and Letters; Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding; Phi
Beta Kappa Emerson Book Award; Gustav Ranis International History Prize; Prakhina
Foundation International Book Prize, honorable mention; Jean-Charles Velge Prize, Tadeusz
Walendowski Book Prize, Wacaw Jdrzejewicz History Medal, Cundill Prize Recognition of
Excellence, shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize, shortlisted for the Wayne S. Vucinich Prize
(ASEEES), shortlisted for the Austrian Scholarly Book of the Year, shortlisted for the NRD
Sachbuch Prize. Jury commendation, Bristol Festival of Ideas..


The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke,
Basic Books, 2008.

Reviews:
New York Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, London Review of Books, The Atlantic,
Harper's, Foreign Affairs, The Guardian, The Independent, The Sunday Times, The Weekly
Telegraph, The Daily Telegraph, The Boston Globe, The Seattle Times, Ukraina Moderna,
American Historical Review, Slavic Review, Russian Review, Journal of Cold War Studies, Neue
Zrcher Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, St. Galler Tagblatte, Buchkultur, Radio K1,
Preuische Allgemeine Zeitung, Die Welt, dradio, Vienna Review of Books, Der Standard, Die
Presse, Jahrbcher fr Geschichte Osteuropas, Ostweuropa, etc.
Introduction reprinted as "Der abgeklrte Sinn fr das Ewige," Die Zeit, 10 September 2009, 14.

Links to Reviews:
New York Review of Book: http://www.anneapplebaum.com/2008/10/23/laughable-and-
tragic/#more-46 ;
The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/cover-to-cover/306841/;
Foreign Affairs http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/64563/robert-legvold/the-red-prince-the-
secret-lives-of-a-habsburg-archduke;
The Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jun/21/saturdayreviewsfeatres.guardianreview18 ,
The Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-red-
prince-by-timothy-snyder-864388.html ;
The Boston Globe:
http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2008/11/21/archduke_in_an_age_of_upheaval/;
The Seattle Times: http://seattletimes.com/html/books/2008071154_redprince27.html ,
Ukraina Moderna: http://www.historians.in.ua/docs/umoderna/um14/ukraina-moderna-14-
pp310-314.pdf ;
Vienna Review of Books: http://www.viennareview.net/vienna-review-book-reviews/book-
reviews/man-without-a-country ;
Die Presse http://diepresse.com/home/politik/zeitgeschichte/506963/Wilhelm-von-
HabsburgLothringen_Der-rote-Habsburger?from=suche.intern.portal

Distinctions: A Times of London notable book, 2008.
American Association for Ukrainian Studies Book Prize, 2009 (shared).

UK edition: Bodley Head/Vintage Paperbacks (2009). French, German, Italian, Dutch, Polish,
Portuguese, Swedish, Danish, Czech, Ukrainian, Japanese (Keio University Press), and other
translations.


Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine,
Yale University Press, 2005.

Reviews:
Journal of Cold War Studies, Slavic Review, American Historical Review, Polish Review, Gazeta
Wyborcza, Polityka, etc.

Distinctions: Pro Historia Polonorum, for best book on Polish history by a foreign scholar in
the previous five years, 2008.
Shortlisted as one of three books for the main Polityka history prize, 2009.
Shortlisted as one of nine books for the Moczarski history prize, 2009.

Polish translation: Znak, Cracow, 2008; Ukrainian translation: Hrani-T, forthcoming


The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999,
Yale University Press, 2003.

Reviews:
Baltic Review, Slavic Review, American Historical Review, Polish Review, Gazeta Wyborcza,
Philadelphia Inquirer, English Historical Review, etc.

Distinctions: George Louis Beer Prize, American Historical Association, 2003.
Przegld Wschodni (Eastern Review) Best Foreign Academic Book, 2003.
American Association for Ukrainian Studies Book Prize, shared, 2004.
Jerzy Giedroyc Scholarly Award, Marie Curie-Skodowska University, 2008.
Honorable mention, Orbis-AAASS Book Prize in Polish Studies, 2004.
Notable books for 2004, Philadelphia Inquirer.

Translations: Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Lithuanian, Belarusian.


The Wall Around the West: State Borders and Immigration Controls in Europe and North
America, Rowman and Littlefield, 2000, co-edited with Peter Andreas.


Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Central Europe: A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz,
Harvard University Press for Ukrainian Research Institute, 1997.

Distinction: Oskar Halecki Prize, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1998.

Polish translation.


Books in Progress

Stalinism in Europe: Terror, War, and Domination, co-edited with Ray Brandon, New York:
Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2014.

Global Holocaust (forthcoming 2014)

A World History of Eastern Europe

Brotherlands: A Family History of the European Nations.