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Bloodlands

Author: Timothy Snyder

Referenced in 4 episodes

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Episodes Referencing This Book

September 10, 2025

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Referenced when discussing the region of Poland and Ukraine: 'the area that Timothy Snyder calls Europe's bloodlands in the 20th century.' This refers to Snyder's book about mass killings in Eastern Europe.

September 05, 2025

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Tom references this book when discussing East Prussia, saying 'These are the bloodlands, then, of Timothy Snyder's book.'

February 23, 2022

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Referenced when discussing how Ukraine is often thought of as part of 'what the historian Timothy Snyder calls the bloodlands' - regions including Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania, Poland that were fought over by Hitler and Stalin

July 02, 2021

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Explicitly mentioned as 'the historian Timothy Snyder has this book, Bloodlands' in the context of discussing Ukraine's violent 20th century history and its position as a blood-soaked territory