The "Contemporary European History" published a special forum on the book in 2012, featuring reviews by Jörg Baberowski, Dan Diner, Thomas Kühne, and Mark Mazower as well as an introduction and response by Snyder. Some such as Diner also regretted that Snyder did not discuss the legacy of Polish–Russian hostility and of the Polish–Soviet War, which would have given context for Soviet crimes in Kayn and Stalin's decision not to intervene during the Warsaw Uprising against the German occupier in 1944. Similarly, Christian Ingrao expressed dissatisfaction in terms of the "chronological starting point" but went further and stated that Snyder could have started his analysis in 1914 by integrating into it the violence committed during World War I and even to the failed 1905 Russian Revolution, when peasants revolted in ways which shook both Russian and Ukraine.