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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 bo…
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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 t…
10 years, 10 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 o…
10 years, 10 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 prevente…
10 years, 11 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 …
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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 o…
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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 ant…
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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 decolon…
11 years 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, …
11 years ago
Mao and China's Peasants
In the immediate aftermath of the Chinese Civil War and the seizure of power by the Chinese Communist Party, Mao Zedong began a violent struggle for …
11 years ago