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Britain's post war strategic questions
In the aftermath of the Second World War, the economic strains on Britain after six years of conflict were immense, but Britain's international commi…
3 years, 6 months ago
Tenth Anniversary Special - Myths of the Blitz
This is the tenth anniversary episode of the Explaining History Podcast, thankyou to everyone who has listened to my lo-fi ramblings over the years, …
3 years, 6 months ago
The Croat Spring 1971
Yugoslavia, a state created in 1919 and recreated from the ashes of war once again in 1945 was a federation of balkan nationalities held together aft…
3 years, 7 months ago
Iraq and India - 1941
In 1941, Iraq was a nominally independent country, but still part of the British sphere of influence in the Middle East. Fascist Italy and Nazi Germa…
3 years, 7 months ago
The Soviet State and the Peasants (Part Two)
The world of the Soviet peasantry was complex and seemingly contradictory, and did not easily fall into the class stratification that the new Soviet …
3 years, 8 months ago
Displaced Persons in Germany -1945
When the Second World War in Europe ended in May 1945, some 40 million people, German and non German were displaced in the four occupied zones of the…
3 years, 8 months ago
The Soviet State and the Peasants
In the decade after the October Revolution the relations between the Soviet government and the peasantry declined as Stalin, Lenin and Trotsky all pe…
3 years, 9 months ago
Stalin and Poland - 1939
This podcast explores Stalin's plans for Poland in the run up to the outbreak of the Second World War, and Neville Chamberlain's flawed diplomacy in …
3 years, 9 months ago
Journalism, Propaganda and War - Explaining History special
In this episode we hear from writer Mary McNeil, who discusses her new biography Century's Witness - which examines the life and career of Wallace Ca…
3 years, 9 months ago
Mobilising the Habsburg Empire: Austria-Hungary and war in 1914
Austria Hungary, a patchwork empire of nationalities, saw a surprising enthusiasm for war in the summer of 1914 from non Austrian subjects. Across th…
3 years, 10 months ago