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Iraq and India - 1941
In 1941, Iraq was a nominally independent country, but still part of the British sphere of influence in the Middle East. Fascist Italy and Nazi Germa…
3 years, 8 months ago
The Soviet State and the Peasants (Part Two)
The world of the Soviet peasantry was complex and seemingly contradictory, and did not easily fall into the class stratification that the new Soviet …
3 years, 9 months ago
Displaced Persons in Germany -1945
When the Second World War in Europe ended in May 1945, some 40 million people, German and non German were displaced in the four occupied zones of the…
3 years, 9 months ago
The Soviet State and the Peasants
In the decade after the October Revolution the relations between the Soviet government and the peasantry declined as Stalin, Lenin and Trotsky all pe…
3 years, 10 months ago
Stalin and Poland - 1939
This podcast explores Stalin's plans for Poland in the run up to the outbreak of the Second World War, and Neville Chamberlain's flawed diplomacy in …
3 years, 10 months ago
Journalism, Propaganda and War - Explaining History special
In this episode we hear from writer Mary McNeil, who discusses her new biography Century's Witness - which examines the life and career of Wallace Ca…
3 years, 10 months ago
Mobilising the Habsburg Empire: Austria-Hungary and war in 1914
Austria Hungary, a patchwork empire of nationalities, saw a surprising enthusiasm for war in the summer of 1914 from non Austrian subjects. Across th…
3 years, 11 months ago
The Nanjing Massacre 1937-38 (Part One)
In the winter of 1937-38, Japan launched an assault of previously unprecedented brutality against a Chinese civilian population in the nationalist ca…
3 years, 11 months ago
Update: Sinn Fein, Northern Ireland and the prospects for reunion
Two weeks ago Sinn Fein achieved something that had previously been considered politically impossible in Northern Ireland, it gained a majority in th…
3 years, 11 months ago
Empire, Fascism and War 1931-39
In today's episode of the podcast, I explore Richard Overy's arguments in Blood and Ruins and discuss his ideas around the necessity for expansionism…
4 years ago