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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Under Stalin’s forced farm collectivization, millions of people died of starvation.
Chapter 3: Stalin savagely persecuted minority groups and those labeled as class enemies in Soviet Russia.
Chapter 4: Hitler and Stalin agreed to invade Poland from the west and the east, devastating the entire population.
Chapter 5: The Soviet Union sought to crush the Polish resistance, and dispatched secret agents to identify fighters therein.
Chapter 6: Germany regarded ethnic minorities in the occupied regions as subhuman beings, and treated them accordingly.
Chapter 7: When the Nazis turned on the Soviets, all mercy vanished. Nazi soldiers left civilians to freeze and starve.
Chapter 8: Nazi Germany started to recruit men for forced labor as military losses mounted.
Chapter 9: Germany’s Final Solution for Jews shifted from deportation to mass murder.
Chapter 10: Resistance to German occupation proved nearly impossible, and rebel uprisings were few and short-lived.
Chapter 11: The Soviets punished both partisans and collaborators as they gained more ground in the west.
Chapter 12: The Soviets mistreated or expelled Germans residing in lands the Reich lost at the end of the war.
Chapter 13: Thousands of civilians died during the deportations that followed the end of World War II.
Description
In Bloodlands (2010), author Timothy Snyder tells the tragic story of the people caught in the crossfire between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II. The victims of the “bloodlands,” or territories that after the war became the Eastern Bloc, were pushed and pulled by two ruthless powers and treated like pawns both before the conflict and afterward.
Who Should Listen
- Historians with a particular interest in World War II
- People interested in the modern history of Eastern Europe
- Students of German or Russian history