[Cronos]

This is one of the most impressive historic works I have ever read. Timothy Snyder gives a very accessible and yet detailed history of why the current borders are as they are, what happened and why Poland-Lithuania-Belarus-Ukraine in the 1990s avoided what happened to Yugoslavia at the same time

This book should be read together with Timothy Snyder's "Bloodland - Europe between Hitler & Stalin",

[Chad C. Mulligan]

I've read Snyder's Bloodlands, although I can't bring myself to read it twice. This older book of his goes on my "to be read" list as of today. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.