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Grain seizures and famine during the Great Leap Forward
During the forced programme of industrialisation in the late 1950s in China, known as the Great Leap Forward, China's peasants came under intense pre…
4 years, 7 months ago
Harold Wilson and MI6 - 1963-76
Harold Wilson was the most successful Labour prime minister of the 20th Century, but was the subject of plots to remove him from power by the militar…
4 years, 7 months ago
De-Maoification 1976-1989
When Mao Zedong, China's 'great helmsman' died in 1976, the China that emerged after destructive reign began to be de-Maoified economically but also …
4 years, 7 months ago
The End by Ian Kershaw - Germany 1944-45
By 1944 it was clear that there was no future for the Third Reich, but unlike other regimes that have faced overwhelming odds, Germany fought on to t…
4 years, 8 months ago
Protest Music and Social Conflict in America (Part Two) 1967-70
By the late 1960s there were huge opportunities for Richard Nixon to capitalise on the growing discontent across America towards the counter culture.…
4 years, 8 months ago
Deng Xiaoping and Neoliberalism with Chinese Characteristics 1978
Following the disastrous chaos and violence of the cultural revolution, Deng Xiaoping, one of Maoist China's inveterate survivors and a hate figure f…
4 years, 8 months ago
Espionage and the American Communist Party 1945-47
The Republican Party and the right of the American liberal establishment colluded in the immediate post war years to wage war against the American le…
4 years, 8 months ago
Pravda and the Stalin's Terror - 1937
By 1937 the Soviet newspaper Pravda (its editorial board pictured above), was a key part of the mechanisms of denunciation and terror. It presented l…
4 years, 9 months ago
Protest music and the social conflict in America 1967-70 (Part One)
This is the first of a multi part exploration of protest music in America during the late 1960s, beginning with Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's Ohio…
4 years, 9 months ago
The experience of military mobilisation in Germany and Austria Hungary 1914
Fear and solidarity defined both Austro Hungarian and Germany societies in August 1914. The pace of mobilisation meant that over three million soldie…
4 years, 9 months ago