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Orde Wingate and Palestine
In 1936 a British Christian Zionist army officer, Orde Wingate, was posted to the British Mandate in Palestine to help quell the Arab revolt. Wingate's passionate support for the Jews in Palestine le…
Published on 10 years, 6 months ago
Ukraine 1918
As the Tsarist empire collapsed and Russia's new rulers, the Bolsheviks, negotiated with Germany at Brest Litovsk, the most important territory to both powers was Ukraine. The fate of the nation and …
Published on 10 years, 6 months ago
Stalinist Consumerism
In the mid 1930s, the Soviet Union claimed that living standards in the USSR had surpassed those in the capitalist world. For a brief period during the Second Five Year Plan the regime's focus was on…
Published on 10 years, 6 months ago
Mao's Hundred Flowers Campaign
Between 1956 and 1957 Mao Zedong took the unprecedented step of encouraging criticism amongst the people of the Chinese Communist Party. The deluge of anger and rage towards the party was overwhelmin…
Published on 10 years, 7 months ago
The Berlin Crisis 1961
In 1961, the city of Berlin, divided between East and West since 1945 saw a more permanent division erected. A wall that cut the city in two prevented East Germans from crossing from East to West ent…
Published on 10 years, 7 months ago
Britain's Labour Government 1945-51
In 1945, at the end of the Second World War, the Labour Party swept to power on a mandate of social reform. Six years later, despite the creation of an almost universally popular National Health Serv…
Published on 10 years, 7 months ago
The Fall of Budapest, 2945
In January 1945 the city of Budapest was surrounded by the Red Army and Hitler's occupying forces made a desperate and futile last stand. The siege of the city by the Red Army is often overshadowed b…
Published on 10 years, 7 months ago
Poland, Palestine and Zionism
In the mid 1930s the Polish government contemplated the mass deportation of its large Jewish population to the British Mandate of Palestine. This anti semitic policy gained support from an unlikely a…
Published on 10 years, 7 months ago
The Bandung Conference
In 1955 one of the most important international conferences of the 20th Century took place in Bandung, Indonesia. The leaders of the recently decolonised nations of Africa and Asia met to forge new e…
Published on 10 years, 8 months ago
Brezhnev and Soviet Stagnation
When Leonid Brezhnev came to power in 1964 he was determined to undo many of the liberalising reforms of his predecessor Nikita Khrushchev. However, his appointment of Alexei Kosygin gave joint contr…
Published on 10 years, 8 months ago