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Nazi Propaganda and Radio Broadcasting
Even before 1933, the Nazis were aware that radio offered then unprecedented opportunities to shape public thought. However, the use of radio did not…
6 years, 5 months ago
US anti communism and the Republican Party 1945-50 (Part One)
This is the first of a series of podcasts on the development of anti communism in the 1940s in the USA and the role that the Republican Party played.…
6 years, 5 months ago
The Roots of German and Italian Fascism
This podcast is a continuation of a series on the origins of fascism and it examines the development of fascist ideas in interwar Italy and Germany.
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German Bombing Raids on London and Paris 1917-18
Strategic bombing of the enemy's home front began in earnest in the second half of the First World War, with London facing a near collapse of its air…
6 years, 6 months ago
Comintern agents between the wars
During the 1920s and 1930s, communist parties across Europe and beyond fell under the control, often voluntarily, of Comintern, the Soviet body dedic…
6 years, 6 months ago
Renunciation in Stalin's Russia
During the Stalin era, those accused of counter revolutionary crimes and their family members were desperate to be relieved of the stigma of being a …
6 years, 6 months ago
Politics, class and democracy in interwar Britain 1918-39
During the interwar years Britain became a dramatically more democratic society, following the extension of the franchise in 1918 and 1928. British s…
6 years, 6 months ago
Czechoslovakia's anti German ethnic cleansing 1945
At the end of the Second World War, Czech prime minister in exile Eduard Benes petitioned both western allies and the USSR to expel all ethnic German…
6 years, 6 months ago
Special Update: Report on the Coup: Part Two
The second in my reports on the current political crisis here in Great Britain.
Explaining History helps you understand the 20th Century through crit…
6 years, 7 months ago
Truman's Domestic Failures 1945-52
By 1945 the political landscape in America was changing in ways that would be far less favourable to Truman than the previous years had been to Roose…
6 years, 7 months ago