English Explanatory Dictionary

bloodlands

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A region comprising modern-day Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and the Baltic states, where the 20th-century regimes of Stalin and Hitler interacted to cause significant suffering and bloodshed.

Word forms

bloodlands

Etymology

From blood + lands, coined as the title of a book, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2010), by Yale historian Timothy D. Snyder.

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