Timothy Snyder: Ukraine, Russia and the Central Significance of Civil Society

Profesor Timothy Snyder speaks about the situation in Russia and Ukraine in the last year and about the significance and role of civil society. „History teaches three lessons here. One is that civil society can and does exist. The second is that civil society can be and is oppressed. The third is that the contest between those who wish to oppress civil society and those who wish to embody it was and remains a central element of history, transcending the history of nations.” (Excerpt from Timothy Snyder’s f