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Austria, Germany and popular attitudes in the July Crisis 1914
What did ordinary Austrians and Germans think, feel and believe during the July Crisis of 1914? This podcast explores how the murder of a widely disl…
6 years, 10 months ago
Soviet Occupation and Liberation 1945
How did everyone from German citizens to concentration camp survivors, war ravaged citizens of Poland and partisans across eastern Europe encounter t…
6 years, 10 months ago
Churchill's government and the Nazi invasion of the USSR 1941
In 1941, despite believing that thee USSR could not last against a Nazi invasion for more than a month, Churchill and his cabinet rejoiced at the new…
6 years, 10 months ago
The Nazi Camps and the 'workshy'
For those unable or unwilling to offer manual labour in service of the Nazi volksgemeinschaft, mass arrests and imprisonment in the growing camp syst…
6 years, 10 months ago
Lenin, Stalin and the Soviet Peasants 1918-27
By 1927 the situation of the Soviet peasantry had just about stabilised from the famine years of the Russian Civil War. However, both Lenin and Stali…
6 years, 10 months ago
The Maoist takeover of China 1949
Following the end of a bloody civil war in China, the communist party began to rapidly seize the levers of power and create class categorisations for…
6 years, 10 months ago
British decision making and the Dardanelles Campaign 1915
A complete absence of intelligence about new German guns along the Dardanelles led Britain into a disastrous campaign against the Ottoman Empire in 1…
6 years, 11 months ago
America's cold war cross roads 1946-7
By 1946 America's political class, it's intellectuals and opinion formers and the population as a whole was broadly anti Soviet but had not committed…
6 years, 11 months ago
Artillery and Intelligence: Breaking the deadlock 1918
After three years of fixed positions, trenches and deadlock, the First World War became a conflict of rapid movement again in 1918. This podcast expl…
6 years, 11 months ago
Stalinist consumerism and advertising
Between 1928 and 1935, bread rationing in the USSR had been implemented due to the extraction of foodstuffs from the peasantry for export and Stalin'…
6 years, 11 months ago