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Britain, France and the Middle East - 1956
During the 1950s, Britain, France the USA and the USSR all conducted great power politics and diplomacy in the Middle East, competing to court and un…
4 years, 11 months ago
The Stalinist Showtrials on 1936-7
There are numerous competing histooriographies of the Stalinist terror, which peaked in 1937. The pretext of the assassination of Kirov, that Stalin …
4 years, 11 months ago
American Cold War Liberals and the McCarthyite era 1948-57
Anti communism became a defining aspect of American politics during the 1940s and 1950s, not just for the right wing of the Republican Party, but als…
4 years, 11 months ago
Thatcherism 1979-2021
Margaret Thatcher was deposed by her party in 1990, but the legacy of her ideas in some form lingers on. The Tory Party itself has abandoned any pret…
4 years, 11 months ago
Germany's air war over the Netherlands and France: 1940
In the first year of the war, from September 1939 to September 1940, Germany's military forces fought four seperate European campaigns (Poland, Scand…
5 years ago
France, De Gaulle and post war anti fascism 1945-51
The Second World War was a national humiliation for France, enduring occupation, collaboration with the Nazis and Vichy complicity in the Holocaust. …
5 years ago
Lebensraum, Genocide and Nazi Colonial Utopias 1941-45
The conquest of the Soviet Union was an idea that had been at the forefront of HItler's thoughts since the 1920s. Exploiting the resources of Russia …
5 years ago
Soviet Citizens and the start of the Great Terror- 1937
In 1937 many Soviet citizens had traumatic memories of collectivisation, anti Kulak campaigns and famine from the period 1928-33. Many could sense th…
5 years ago
Schlieffen, Moltke and German strategy 1914
In the decade before the FIrst World War, Germany and Austria-Hungary put little effort in to coordinating their military strategies in the event of …
5 years, 1 month ago
Eisenhower, Korea and the politics of 1950s America
The landslide victory for Eisenhower and the Republican Party in the 1952 Presidential Election showed Democrats that a right of centre, socially con…
5 years, 1 month ago