The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

From the author of the international bestseller On Tyranny, this prescient analysis of Russia's ongoing interference in the West is now more relevant than ever.

"One of the best... brisk, conceptually convincing account of democracy's retreat in the early years of the 21st century" – Guardian

The past is another country, the old saying goes. The same might be said of the future. But which country? For Europeans and Americans today, the answer is Russia.

In this visionary work of contemporary history, Timothy Snyder reveals how Russia operates within the West to undermine it. Key strategies include:

• Supporting the far right in Europe
• Invading Ukraine in 2014
• Waging a cyberwar during the 2016 presidential campaign and the EU referendum

Nowhere is this interference more evident than in the creation of Donald Trump—an American failure deployed as a Russian weapon.

This threat, however, offers an opportunity to better understand the foundations of our freedoms and confront the critical choices that will shape the future:

• Equality or oligarchy
• Individualism or totalitarianism
• Truth or lies

"A brilliant and disturbing analysis, which should be read by anyone wishing to understand the political crisis currently engulfing the world" – Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens