Professor Timothy Snyder has been awarded the 2013 Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought for his book Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Basic Books/ Random House, 2010). The prize was created in 1994 by the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung and the Senate of the City of Bremen in honor of Arendt’s dictum that the “meaning of politics is freedom.” The prize is not an academic but a public one. It is awarded by an international jury to people who have the taken the risk of advancing public discussion in this important area. Professor Snyder has received several other major awards for this book, including the Leipzig Award for European Understanding, the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award in the Humanities, and a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.