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The Creation of the Red Army
by early 1918 the Bolshevik's revolution was in serious danger of being overthrown. Instead of elite troops the new government possessed poorly disc…
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Churchill and Greece
When the Nazis' occupation of Greece ended and a gradual withdrawal turned into a desperate retreat from the Red Army, a civil war in Greece began. T…
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Menachim Begin and Irgun
Towards the end of the Second World War, zionist terrorist Menachem Begin and the paramilitary organisation Irgun instigated their own war against th…
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Evacuation
Throughout the 1920s and 1930s the British became increasingly aware that they were vulnerable to air attack, especially after the rise of Nazism in …
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Hunger, housing and the First Five Year Plan
During Stalin's First Five Year Plan (1928-1932), the Russian population experienced greater material hardship and shortages than at any time since t…
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Lyndon Johnson 1963-64
Lyndon Johnson had an antagonistic relationship with the Kennedy brothers but was indispensable to John F Kennedy as a political fixer. Following Ken…
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The Representation of the People Act 1918
In March 1918 in Britain, Parliament voted to enfranchise property owning women for the first time. This podcast explores the wartime decisions that …
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Nixon, Ford and Carter 1974-1980
In the second half of the 1970s Americans developed a profound disillusionment with politics and a skepticism towards the office of president. The im…
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Inflation 1916-1923
The massive increase in government spending, borrowing and currency devaluation that occurred during the First World War by all powers led to a glob…
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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…
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