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British and American Journalists and the Russian Revolution
During the chaos of the First World War a generation of British and American correspondents in Russia astutely predicted the failure of the Provision…
10 years, 5 months ago
Romania, Communism and the Holocaust
Throughout the 20th Century Romania has endured the twin catastrophes of fascism and communism. During the Second World War Romania was deeply involv…
10 years, 5 months ago
Thatcher, AIDS and sexual politics in the 1980s
Margaret Thatcher was a politician convinced that a return to 'family values' after two decades of seeming moral decline in the 60s and 70s was part …
10 years, 6 months ago
Goebbels and Total War
In February 1943, after one of the longest coldest winters of the war, the news that the German 6th Army had been lost at Stalingrad shocked the nati…
10 years, 6 months ago
The Ku Klux Klan 1915-24
During the First World War the racist terrorist organisation the Ku Klux Klan reformed and by 1924 boasted four million members. However five years l…
10 years, 6 months ago
The Berlin Wall 1961
In August 1961 East German and Soviet forces created a wall around West Berlin, preventing East Germans from fleeing to the west. The failures of Sov…
10 years, 7 months ago
John Lennon in America: 1970-73
In the early 1970s John Lennon embarked on a brief and rather inglorious career as a political activist while based in America. His activism was an i…
10 years, 7 months ago
The Origins of Mao's Cultural Revolution
In 1966 after four years of existing at the margins of the Chinese Communist Party following the disasters of the Great Leap Forward, Mao Zedong retu…
10 years, 8 months ago
Erich Fromm
Erich Fromm, one of the most overlooked intellectual figures of the 20th Century wrote insightful critiques of consumerist capitalism and explanation…
10 years, 8 months ago
East Germany and the Sino Soviet Split
By the early 1960s the once cordial relations between the USSR and The People's Republic of China had been replaced by suspicion and animosity. Two r…
10 years, 8 months ago