![]() ![]() ![]() Mounk provides an equally disturbing account of the decline of liberal democracy, but he traces the source of the crisis to the West itself. What political and ideological tools can the liberal democratic world use to resist the politics of eternity? ![]() What is missing is a sense of what stands in oppo-sition to this illiberal onslaught. Snyder’s lyrical prose gives the book its emotional power. Snyder argues that this “politics of inevitability” has collapsed, opening the door to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “politics of eternity,” a project in which illiberal states perpetuate themselves by manufacturing enemies, stoking grievances, manipulating the truth, and undermining foreign countries that offer alternative ideals to their citizens. The West’s grand vision is built on Enlightenment ideas and a belief in the inevitable spread of liberal democracy. For Snyder, the primary threat comes from Russia’s ideological challenge to the West. ![]() In his new work, Snyder argues that fascism and authoritarianism have returned in new and subtler guises. In an earlier book, Bloodlands, Snyder told the story of Nazi and Soviet genocidal violence in eastern Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. Of all the books that seek to explain the current crisis of Western liberal democracy, none is more eloquent or more frightening than Snyder’s The Road to Unfreedom. ![]()
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