Reflections on the 20th century | Tony Judt, Timothy Snyder

This book is a historical intelligence, a biography and an ethical treatise," says American historian Timothy Snyder, one of its co-authors. The focus of his conversations with Tony Judd is “the history of contemporary political ideas in Europe and the United States; power and justice in the understanding of liberal, socialist, communist, nationalist and fascist intellectuals from the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 21st centuries." According to Timothy Snyder, one of the most important things in their conversations with Tony Juddt were "reflections on the limitations (and capacity for revival) of political ideas, as well as on the moral defeats (and duties) of intellectuals in politics." At the same time, "Reflections on the 20th Century" is also a biography of the historian and essayist Tony Judt, who was born in London in the middle of the 20th century, after the cataclysms of the Second World War and the Holocaust, at a time when the Communists were establishing power in Eastern Europe.