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Lenin's Red Terror 1918
How did Lenin manage to assert his control over Russia in the aftermath of the October Revolution? The new Bolshevik Government used hunger and terror to force widespread social and political change …
Published on 11 years, 3 months ago
The Provisional Government: Russia 1917
In March 1917 a provisional government established itself in Russia in the aftermath of the downfall of the Tsar. By October 1917 it had been swept away and Lenin's Bolshevik Party replaced it. The c…
Published on 11 years, 4 months ago
The Casablanca Conference
In early 1943 the tide of the Second World War was turning in favour of the allies, following victories in North Africa. At Casablanca the British and the Americans met to discuss their two conflicti…
Published on 11 years, 5 months ago
Dien Bien Phu
In 1945 France returned to its former colony in Indochina, determined to re-assert control after humiliation by Japan. The nationalist Vietminh were determined to fight for their independence and nin…
Published on 11 years, 5 months ago
Kruschev and the Secret Speech 1956
in 1956 Soviet leader Nikita Kruschev spoke for the first time the 20th Party Congress about the crimes of his predecessor Joseph Stalin. His speech shocked those gathered and had profound consequenc…
Published on 11 years, 5 months ago
Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression
By the end of the First World War Herbert Hoover was a national hero in America for his humanitarian work. A decade later he was engulfed in an economic catastrophe following the Wall Street Crash th…
Published on 11 years, 5 months ago
The Heath Government 1970-74
By the early 1970s a perfect storm of inflation and mounting industrial unrest brought the government of Edward Heath to its knees. His plans to introduce free market economics and politics to Britai…
Published on 11 years, 5 months ago
The Scramble For China
From the 1840s onwards China endured over half a century of an unprecedented onslaught from Britain and other western powers. She was defeated, humiliated and forced to sign treaties that drained her…
Published on 11 years, 5 months ago
The Baader Meinhof Gang
Why did West Germany suffer a decade of terrorism from 1967-77? During the height of Vietnam War protests, a generation of radical West German students saw a relationship between the West German Gove…
Published on 11 years, 6 months ago
Strength Through Joy
In 1933 Hitler established a state run mass leisure organisation in Germany to help develop his vision of a socially unified, racially homogenous society. The extent to which it was successful has be…
Published on 11 years, 6 months ago