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Nixon, Reagan and the war on drugs 1971-1989
By the late 1960s anxieties over rapid social change and racial tensions promoted a conservative backlash against the perceived permissiveness of the decade. Richard Nixon and then Ronald Reagan used…
Published on 9 years ago
Class Warfare in Spain 1918-1931
In the decade and a half before the Spanish Civil War, a bitterly divided society existed in constant conflict. Wealthy landowners and industrialists, supported by the army and civil guard viewed the…
Published on 9 years ago
Calcutta and the Indian Partition 1946
In 1946, following the formation of a Hindu dominated transitional government in India, inter ethnic violence broke out in Calcutta. Hindus and Muslims killed their neighbours in days of rioting, but…
Published on 9 years, 1 month ago
Britain's changing wartime relationship with its colonies
Throughout the Second World War, Britain saw its colonies as sources of available manpower, food and finance. As Britain's fortunes changed throughout the conflict, so did its attitude to the present…
Published on 9 years, 1 month ago
Black Radical Politics in Inter War Harlem
Harlem was the epicentre of black cultural and intellectual life in the inter war decades. Competing radical nationalist and communist parties struggled with each other to attract members from with b…
Published on 9 years, 2 months ago
Spain, Stalin and European Communist Parties in the 1930s
After 1936 the Spanish Civil War became the focal issue for Europe's socialist and communist parties. The rise of Hitler to power had made anti fascist struggle the most important battle for communis…
Published on 9 years, 2 months ago
Post War British Sexual Politics 1945-1971
Did Britain have a sexual revolution in the 1960s? All indications suggest that momentous change occurred in attitudes to pregnancy, marriage, divorce and homosexuality in that decade. However, in re…
Published on 9 years, 2 months ago
Tito and Yugoslavia in 1945
At the end of the Second World War, intense ethnic hatreds had been reawoken in Yugoslavia and Josef Tito's victorious communist partisans took advantage of internecine feuds and attempted to suppres…
Published on 9 years, 3 months ago
Stalin, showtrials and terror 1936-38
In the second half of the 1930s, after explosive economic growth during the five year plans the USSR was convulsed by murderous political violence. The phenomenon of Stalinist terror has occupied the…
Published on 9 years, 3 months ago
Engels and the Condition of the Working Class in England
In 1845, at the height of Britain's industrial revolution, Friedrich Engels, the son of a German cotton industrialist came to live in Manchester. His study of the lives of the English working classes…
Published on 9 years, 3 months ago