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The End by Ian Kershaw - Germany 1944-45
By 1944 it was clear that there was no future for the Third Reich, but unlike other regimes that have faced overwhelming odds, Germany fought on to the end. Historian Ian Kershaw wrote a groundbreaki…
Published on 4 years, 3 months ago
Protest Music and Social Conflict in America (Part Two) 1967-70
By the late 1960s there were huge opportunities for Richard Nixon to capitalise on the growing discontent across America towards the counter culture. Millions of Americans looked on with disdain at a…
Published on 4 years, 3 months ago
Deng Xiaoping and Neoliberalism with Chinese Characteristics 1978
Following the disastrous chaos and violence of the cultural revolution, Deng Xiaoping, one of Maoist China's inveterate survivors and a hate figure for Mao himself, began a series of changes of globa…
Published on 4 years, 3 months ago
Espionage and the American Communist Party 1945-47
The Republican Party and the right of the American liberal establishment colluded in the immediate post war years to wage war against the American left. The Republicans saw it an opportunity to under…
Published on 4 years, 4 months ago
Pravda and the Stalin's Terror - 1937
By 1937 the Soviet newspaper Pravda (its editorial board pictured above), was a key part of the mechanisms of denunciation and terror. It presented lurid tales of corruption and embezzlement that mos…
Published on 4 years, 4 months ago
Protest music and the social conflict in America 1967-70 (Part One)
This is the first of a multi part exploration of protest music in America during the late 1960s, beginning with Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's Ohio, written to mourn the killing of four students by…
Published on 4 years, 4 months ago
The experience of military mobilisation in Germany and Austria Hungary 1914
Fear and solidarity defined both Austro Hungarian and Germany societies in August 1914. The pace of mobilisation meant that over three million soldiers in Germany alone were in uniform in just twelve…
Published on 4 years, 4 months ago
Getting Churchill wrong and the problem of fake history - Explaining History in conversation with Otto English
History as entertainment has shaped, for many, the understanding of the past. Mythologisation of key moments of the past crafts powerful and often misleading national stories that provide simple and …
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
1937 - The Year of the Great Terror (Part One)
Throughout the 1930s the forces that led to a year of terror in 1937 had been gradually developing, from the trials of bourgeois specialists in the1920s to the murder of Sergei Kirov. The regime init…
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
The Motherland Calls - the Soviet Union's Second World War memorials
In present day Volgograd, one of the largest Second World War memorials in the world stands. The city, once known as Stalingrad, is home the gigantic concrete and steel sculpture, The Motherland Call…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago