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Cold War assumptions and the beginning of the Korean War
Mao, Stalin, Truman and MacArthur's calculations, along with the ambitions of Kim Il Sung and Syngman Rhee turned Korea from a Cold War sideshow into…
8 years, 3 months ago
The development of Nazi economic policy 1920-32
Incoherence was one of the defining features of Nazi economic thinking, as competing economic tendencies within the party and externally were suborne…
8 years, 3 months ago
Churchill and the Russian Civil War 1919
At the height of the allied intervention in Russia, David Lloyd George wavered in his enthusiasm for the mission but his political ally and friend Ch…
8 years, 3 months ago
Marx's legacy and the German Social Democratic Party
Following his death in 1883 Marx was elevated the position of a secular prophet of history by the guardians of his legacy the German Social Democrati…
8 years, 3 months ago
British, American and Chinese Neoliberalism 1978-80
In the last years of the 1970s a fringe economic ideology captured the centre ground in Britain, America and China, transforming the world economy an…
8 years, 3 months ago
Barbarossa Part Two: Hunger and annihilation
Hitler, his ministers and many of his generals fully intended to fight a war of racial annihilation in Russia unlike anything previously seen. This p…
8 years, 3 months ago
Allied Divisions over Russia - 1919
The question of whether or not to negotiate with Russia and what form the allied intervention in the Russian Civil War should take divided Britain, F…
8 years, 3 months ago
A plan for 2018: Free Historical Literacy For All...
I am working on a plan and I need everyone's input to create a historical literacy course in these frighteningly confused times. Please listen and th…
8 years, 3 months ago
Operation Barbarossa: Part One
On June 22nd 1941 Nazi Germany and its allies launched the largest invasion in history against the Soviet Union. The attack on the USSR had consequen…
8 years, 3 months ago
British setbacks in the Desert War 1941-42
Despite impressive advances against the Axis powers in 1940 and 1941, the organisation and leadership of Rommel's Afrika Korps devastated Britain's p…
8 years, 4 months ago