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The Russian Revolution: Beyond Petrograd and Moscow (Part 2)
What happened when news of the Russian Revolution reached the empire's rural areas? How did the largely non literate peasantry interact with this cha…
1 year, 6 months ago
Woodrow Wilson, Mandates and the Paris Peace Conference
In the aftermath of the First World War, the delegates of the victorious powers at the Paris Peace Conference attempted to shape a post war world ord…
1 year, 6 months ago
My Palestine by Mohammad Tarbush
Mohammad Tarbush's extraordinary life story, from growing up in a Palestinian refugee camp and hitchhiking to Europe to becoming head of Deutsche Ban…
1 year, 7 months ago
The LA radical press 1964-70
An entire radical history of Los Angeles in the 1960s that rarely gets mentioned can be found in Mike Davis and Jon Wiener's brilliant book Set The N…
1 year, 7 months ago
Western Intellectuals and Stalinism Part One
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In the 1930s a generation of intellectuals were attracted to the Soviet Union, though most were never members of any comm…
1 year, 7 months ago
AQA Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-53 part 3
This episode is for all students of A Level Russian history, and it follows the AQA syllabus. In this episode we will explore the events of the Febru…
1 year, 7 months ago
The Russian Revolution: Beyond Petrograd and Moscow
How did people outside Petrograd hear about the events of February 1917? News spread quickly to cities like Kazan and Nizhni Novgorod due to the tele…
1 year, 7 months ago
The Decline and Fall of the Conservative Party
The Conservative Party is one of British history's great survivors, it morphs and mutates when it needs to into new incarnations that help to preserv…
1 year, 7 months ago
The rise and fall of the New Deal Era Part Two
In today's episode of the The Explaining History podcast we revisit Gary Gerstle's Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Era. Here we explore the New Deal …
1 year, 7 months ago
America's War on Prostitution 1870-1930
Why did American reformers and missionaries seek to eliminate prostitution worldwide at the end of the 19th Century and the start of the 20th? In thi…
1 year, 7 months ago