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The Politics of Stalinism Part One
This podcast is the first of several that explore the inner workings of the Soviet State and the Communist Party under Stalin after 1928.
Explaining …
8 years, 6 months ago
Booker T Washington and the Jim Crow Era
Between 1890 and 1915 the eradication of political, social and economic gains that black Americans had achieved after the Civil War in the Reconstruc…
8 years, 6 months ago
Hitler's personality and German Government
After fifteen years of 'struggle' Hitler brought to orderly German Government the politics of the demagogue and the populist, and retreated from the …
8 years, 6 months ago
Bolshevik Russia and the Paris Peacemakers - 1919
While revolution and civil war tore the former Russian Empire apart, the British, French and American leaders at the Paris Peace Conference were unsu…
8 years, 6 months ago
The Italo Turkish War
In 1911 Italy launched an opportunist war against the Ottoman Empire for control of Libya. Despite the huge costs and the unexpected guerrilla war th…
8 years, 6 months ago
America, USSR, Britain and the development of the atomic bomb
The wartime Manhattan project resulted in unforseen diplomatic tensions between the three powers and gave America unprecedented power which President…
8 years, 6 months ago
American and British Volunteers at the Battle of Jarama, 1937
Poorly equipped and with virtually no training, the American and British volunteers in the International Brigades, along with French, German, Belgian…
8 years, 6 months ago
Hitler and the creation of the 'Fuhrer State'
The insertion of a highly personalised dictatorship into Germany's previously highly functional bureaucratic state and the gradual erosion of barrier…
8 years, 7 months ago
The Fall and Rise of European Tensions 1909-11
A temporary lull in imperial tensions, arms races and the threat of a major European war was illusory in the last years before the First World War. T…
8 years, 7 months ago
The Nazi Party 1933
Nazi Germany was more than simply a personal dictatorship and the manner in which the chaotic and restless Nazi movement captured and infiltrated all…
8 years, 7 months ago