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Russian proto-fascism 1903-7
The prolonged crisis of the Russian Empire throughout the 19th and early 20th Centuries that resulted from the advance of modernisation led to the cr…
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Britain, Pakistan and the Partition of India
The British, aware of their imminent loss of world power in Asia, encouraged the partition of India. Military planners and politicians hoped that a M…
8 years, 4 months ago
Austria after the Anschluss 1938-45
The annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany presented the country and its exiles with the first of several crises. The disastrous outcome of the war fo…
8 years, 4 months ago
Britain's war with Nazi Germany and Vichy France in Iraq and Syria: 1941
Despite British setbacks and failures in Greece and an overstretched force in North Africa, Churchill was determined to seize Syria from the French V…
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The origins of Stalinist purges and show trials
Paranoia and the obsessional belief that the party and state were infiltrated by enemies and saboteurs created a culture of confession and interrogat…
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Roosevelt, Wilkie and the 1940 Presidential Election
With ever more alarming new unfolding in Europe and the fate of Britain hanging in the balance, Franklin Roosevelt decided to stand for re-election f…
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Lenin and the founding of the British Communist Party: 1920
The formation of the Communist Party of Great Britain had direct organisational, financial and ideological input from Lenin himself. He saw it as ess…
8 years, 5 months ago
Hitler's Reich Governors
The Nazi regime's consolidation of power led to an assault on the structures of Germany's federal system. It resulted in the creation of regional gov…
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The fall of Greece and Crete 1941
A series of strategic errors, missed opportunities and disasters handed Germany victory in Greece and Crete and led to two further allied evacuations…
8 years, 5 months ago
Chiang, Mao and the battle for China 1945-49 (Part One)
In 1946 General George Marshall met both Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai Shek, and concluded that the nationalist cause in China was lost. From this fatefu…
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