Hitler and Stalin Today - Class 1: What is History? [Timothy Snyder] (www.youtube.com)

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Institution

University of Toronto

Lecturer

Timothy Snyder

University Course Code

MUN180H1-S

Subject

#authoritarianism #colonization #communism #democracy #fascism #genocide #history #holocaust #politics #soviet #worldhistory #20thcentury #democracyindanger #historymatters #hitler #hitlerandstalintoday #massatrocities #nazi #nazigermany #neveragain #riseofauthoritarianism #sovietunion #stalin #timothysnyder #totalitarianism

Year

2026

Description

Class 1: What is History?

We speak often about history, but we are careless with the past. When we choose not to know what has happened before, we are also choosing not to influence what will happen after. If we don't care about history, we find ourselves in an eternal present, denied any sort of imagination about the future, and nurtured on lies about a past in which we were innocent. History does not mean these misleading tales; it means a search for knowledge, using a certain set of tools; it means a process that enriches and humanizes, one that allows us to name things by their proper names.

Readings

Tadeusz Borowski, Here in Our Auschwitz

The War on History is a War on Democracy

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