Timothy Snyder's 2010 history of the 'bloodlands' — Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, the Baltic states — where Nazi and Soviet killing machines overlapped between 1933 and 1945, killing approximately 14 million civilians — arguing that the specific combination of two totalitarian systems created an unprecedented killing zone.
Documents the unprecedented civilian death toll in the intersection of Nazi and Soviet killing — Bloodlands demonstrates that the 14 million civilian deaths between 1933–45 in the bloodlands (distinct from combat deaths) resulted from deliberate policy decisions by two regimes, and that this zone deserves a distinct historical category.
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