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The aftermath of the fall of the Philippines: May 1942
By the summer of 1942 the Japanese military was drunk on the victories it had achieved in the previous six months of war. It had over run Singapore, …
6 years, 1 month ago
Poison gas on the Western Front - 1915-18
Between 1915 and 1918 all sides in the First World War used poison gas against one another, but it was Germany that was the biggest pioneer of battle…
6 years, 1 month ago
Leninism and the Communist Party of Great Britain - 1921
The Communist Party of Great Britain was established in 1920 and was heavily influenced by Comintern, the Communist International organisation in Mos…
6 years, 1 month ago
The Continuity of Italian fascism after 1945 (Part four)
Fascist bombing campaigns and planned coups, leading up to a massacre in Bologna in 1980 brought the threat of splinter group fascism to the Italian …
6 years, 2 months ago
The post war decades and the neoliberal turn
In the aftermath of the Second World War a set of global institutions allied with a social democratic shift in several leading world economies to cre…
6 years, 2 months ago
The continuity of Italian fascism post 1945 (part three)
In the 1960s, splinter groups from the right wing Italian Social Movement began to believe that only a military coup in Italy could save the country …
6 years, 2 months ago
Venizelos, Lloyd George and the Greek annexation of Smyrna: May 1919
As the allied powers deliberated at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, David Lloyd George encouraged the Greek prime minister Venizelos to seize the…
6 years, 3 months ago
Soviet POWs and commissars: 1941
The Nazis always intended to wage a war of annihilation in the Soviet Union and both soldiers and civilians would die in unprecedented numbers. In th…
6 years, 3 months ago
The coup plots against the Wilson Governments 1964-76
In the mid 1960s a series of plots were considered, with varying degrees of organisation and commitment, to overthrow the Labour governments of Harol…
6 years, 3 months ago
The continuity of Italian fascism post 1945 (part two)
Between the the late 1940s and late 1950s, as Cold War politics swept Europe, the Italian Social Movement, a neo fascist party, tried to merge into t…
6 years, 3 months ago