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The Continuity of Italian fascism after 1945 (Part four)
Fascist bombing campaigns and planned coups, leading up to a massacre in Bologna in 1980 brought the threat of splinter group fascism to the Italian government's attention. The MSI (Italian social mo…
Published on 5 years, 9 months ago
The post war decades and the neoliberal turn
In the aftermath of the Second World War a set of global institutions allied with a social democratic shift in several leading world economies to create a relatively stable post war economic order. T…
Published on 5 years, 9 months ago
The continuity of Italian fascism post 1945 (part three)
In the 1960s, splinter groups from the right wing Italian Social Movement began to believe that only a military coup in Italy could save the country from the threat of communism. By the late 1960s th…
Published on 5 years, 9 months ago
Venizelos, Lloyd George and the Greek annexation of Smyrna: May 1919
As the allied powers deliberated at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, David Lloyd George encouraged the Greek prime minister Venizelos to seize the former Ottoman city of Smyrna. The consequences f…
Published on 5 years, 10 months ago
Soviet POWs and commissars: 1941
The Nazis always intended to wage a war of annihilation in the Soviet Union and both soldiers and civilians would die in unprecedented numbers. In the Nazi camps Soviet soldiers were left to starve, …
Published on 5 years, 10 months ago
The coup plots against the Wilson Governments 1964-76
In the mid 1960s a series of plots were considered, with varying degrees of organisation and commitment, to overthrow the Labour governments of Harold Wilson using the army. Even though a coup failed…
Published on 5 years, 10 months ago
The continuity of Italian fascism post 1945 (part two)
Between the the late 1940s and late 1950s, as Cold War politics swept Europe, the Italian Social Movement, a neo fascist party, tried to merge into the wider parliamentary political right. Using elec…
Published on 5 years, 10 months ago
Nazi Press Laws 1933-36
The coordination and control of the German press by the Nazis took several years to complete as prior to 1933, the German newspaper industry was among the most diverse and vibrant in the world. A pro…
Published on 5 years, 11 months ago
The continuity of Italian fascism post 1945
In the aftermath of the Second World War, a centre right Christian Democratic Party emerged and by 1947 the Communist Party of Italy had been expelled from its coalition. The far right was able to re…
Published on 5 years, 11 months ago
Betrayal, collapse and the fall of Burma 1942
When the poorly defended British colony of Burma was attacked by Japan in December 1941 it quickly collapsed. For many Burmese, it was a moment of opportunity and for the British a desperate bid for …
Published on 6 years ago