On Tyranny

The #1 New York Times bestseller, now in an expanded audiobook edition that includes detailed historical context for the democracy-threatening Ukrainian conflict and a call to action for modern times.

This edition includes the bestselling original essay collection On Tyranny, read by the author.

Acclaimed author and historian Timothy Snyder has long cautioned that democracy is a fragile state. In this exclusive audiobook edition, which includes twenty new lectures, he explores the circumstances that laid the groundwork for the Russian invasions of Ukraine in 2014 and 2022 and explains the connection of those incursions to other current world events, such as Brexit and the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

This edition also includes On Tyranny, the bestselling essay collection that illustrates how various countries and governments have managed to protect against totalitarianism throughout history despite ever-present threats from many factions. Snyder cautions that unless we learn from these disruptive and disturbing occurrences, they will continue. This important call to arms and roadmap for resistance provides invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come.