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Mao, Deng and the Sino Soviet Split
By the late 1950s ties between the USSR and China were weakening and there was mutual hostility and suspicion between the two powers. Deng Xiaoping i…
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Nazi economic plunder of western Europe and war production crises
In the aftermath of Germany's stunning victories in 1940, the countries of western Europe were economically exploited by Germany. From the level of i…
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Approaches to history Part Five: Empiricism continued
In this episode we continue to explore the historical practices associated with empiricism, and we're reading from The Houses of History
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American Lend Lease to the Soviet Union 1941-42
In 1941 the USSR was desperate for American war materiel from trucks to tanks to aircraft and grain but the intensity of German submarine and aircraf…
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AQA Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-53 part 9
This is part nine of the Explaining History study course based on the AQA A level history module Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-53.
In this …
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Truman, anti communism and the Marshall Plan
In 1947 US Secretary of State George Marshall announced that the US government would offer unprecedented assistance to the European countries devasta…
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Mao, Deng and the Great Leap Forward
In 1959 as the process of communalising agriculture and the forced industrialisation of the Great Leap Forward led to catastrophe on an unprecedented…
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Approaches to history Part Four: Empiricism
This is part four in our weekly exploration of the practices of historians - Approaches to history. We now examine the empiricist approach, based on …
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China and the west in the 21st Century
The western world as we understand it, is over. China's advances in key technologies has reached an inflection point that is historically without pre…
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War Reporting in China and the Pacific 1937-41
Drawing from the classic history of war reporting The First Casualty by Phillip Knightley, we explore the history of news, propaganda and misinformat…
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