The past is another country, the old saying goes.
It is necessary reading for any citizen of a democracy..
History never ends, and this new challenge forces us to face the choices that will determine the future: equality or oligarchy, individualism or totalitarianism, truth or lies.
The Road to Unfreedom helps us to see our world as if for the first time.
But this threat presents an opportunity to better understand the pillars of our freedoms, confront our own complacency and seek renewal.
Nowhere is this more obvious than in the creation of Donald Trump, an American failure deployed as a Russian weapon.
And if Moscow\'s drive to dissolve Western states and values succeeds, this could become our reality too.
In this visionary work of contemporary history, Timothy Snyder shows how Russia works within the West to destroy the West; by supporting the far right in Europe, invading Ukraine in 2014, and waging a cyberwar during the 2016 presidential campaign and the EU referendum.
But it also represents the fulfilment of tendencies already present in the West.
But which country? For Europeans and Americans today, the answer is Russia.
Today\'s Russia is an oligarchy propped up by illusions and repression.
The same might be said of the future.
The past is another country, the old saying goes
