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Yeltsin, Economic Chaos and President Putin
Episode 161
[Episode 3 of 4]
'You certainly won't understand what ordinary Russians see in Vladimir Putin if you don't understand what happened in the 1990s. A ti…
4 years, 5 months ago
The Fall of the Soviet Union
Episode 160
[Episode 2 of 4]
This episode of The Rest Is History marks the second instalment in our four part series on the Soviet Union, Russia and the rise of V…
4 years, 5 months ago
Young Putin, the KGB and the Soviet Union
Episode 159
[Episode 1 of 4]
Welcome to our new four part series on the latter years of the Soviet Union, its fall, Putin's early life and his subsequent rise to …
4 years, 5 months ago
Killer Fashion
Episode 158
How much do you know about the lethal price people have paid over the centuries to look fashionable?
In today's episode Tom and Dominic are joined by …
4 years, 5 months ago
The Rest Is Politics: Putin in person, Russian influence, and Blair vs Bono
What's Vladimir Putin like to deal with in person? In our new podcast "The Rest Is Politics", Tony Blair's former spokesperson Alastair Campbell and …
4 years, 5 months ago
Byzantium and the Ghosts of Rome
Episode 157
What happened to the Roman Empire after its fall?
In the second of two episodes, Tom and Dominic discuss where Rome endured, how its ghost still haunt…
4 years, 5 months ago
When did the Roman Empire fall?
Episode 156
Tom and Dominic explore what Edward Gibbon called “the greatest, perhaps, and most awful scene in the history of mankind”: the decline and fall of th…
4 years, 6 months ago
Ukraine and Russia
Episode 155
With eastern Europe apparently on the brink of war and Vladimir Putin citing history as pretext, what exactly is Ukraine? Is it distinct from Russia,…
4 years, 6 months ago
ARCHIVE: The Vikings and the birth of Kyiv
Want to know more about the history of the Vikings in the East and how it relates to modern day Russia and Ukraine? Listen to our bumper episode on t…
4 years, 6 months ago
ARCHIVE: Ukraine and the United Kingdom
With Russia seemingly on the brink of invading Ukraine, here's an episode from our archives on the historical relationship between the UK and Ukraine…
4 years, 6 months ago