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Eastern Europe's 'little Stalins' - Ulbricht, Beirut, Rakosi
The origins of Stalin's imitators, admirers and henchmen in Eastern Europe is explored in this podcast. Walter Ulbricht of East Germany, Boleslaw Beirut of Poland and Matyas Rakosi of Hungary respect…
Published on 6 years, 4 months ago
Talking History: The Five by Hallie Rubenhold
A new feature on the Explaining History Podcast, Talking History is our opportunity to hear from teachers, researchers, writers and academics about the history books they value and how they have enga…
Published on 6 years, 4 months ago
British society during the 1930s
By the eve of the Second World War, Great Britain had been economically eclipsed by the USA, but it was still the most industrialised and urbanised nation in the world and experienced a transition aw…
Published on 6 years, 4 months ago
The Nazi Cultural Revolution 1933-39
Seizing political power was just the beginning of the Nazi programme, creating a profound and lasting cultural change among Germans to undo the perceived corruption of Germanic culture by the Weimar …
Published on 6 years, 4 months ago
German and Austro-Hungarian military planning 1906-1914
Germany and Austria were outnumbered in terms of troops and cavalry by nearly 2:1 in 1914 and desperately needed to win a rapid war on the western front if they stood any chance of victory. For both …
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The Origins of Fascism: Part Two
This is the second in a series on the development of fascism in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. In this podcast we examine the legacy of racial thinking, imperialism and the interaction of ro…
Published on 6 years, 4 months ago
Spain's state of emergency and the Falange Party - 1934
In 1934 a new interior minister in the right wing government that took power in late 1933, Salazar Alonzo, declared a state of emergency and the right wing CEDA movement that supported the government…
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Britain, America and Palestine 1939-42
During the Second World War, the fate of British and French mandates in the Middle East was a constant pressure on war time diplomacy and on American domestic policy. The legacies of the Anglo-French…
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Exile and deportation in Stalinist Russia 1928-41
Administrative exile had been used by the Tsarist regime against political dissidents and the revolutionary intelligentsia, however the mass deportation of entire ethnic and social groups was a new p…
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The Nazi Quarry Camps 1938-40
Hitler's vision of a new Germany, built in vast neoclassical grandeur, required stone to be quarried and bricks to be manufactured in vast quantities. Three camps, Flossenburg, Mauthausen and Orianen…
Published on 6 years, 4 months ago