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German Bombing Raids on London and Paris 1917-18
Strategic bombing of the enemy's home front began in earnest in the second half of the First World War, with London facing a near collapse of its air…
6 years, 7 months ago
Comintern agents between the wars
During the 1920s and 1930s, communist parties across Europe and beyond fell under the control, often voluntarily, of Comintern, the Soviet body dedic…
6 years, 7 months ago
Renunciation in Stalin's Russia
During the Stalin era, those accused of counter revolutionary crimes and their family members were desperate to be relieved of the stigma of being a …
6 years, 7 months ago
Politics, class and democracy in interwar Britain 1918-39
During the interwar years Britain became a dramatically more democratic society, following the extension of the franchise in 1918 and 1928. British s…
6 years, 7 months ago
Czechoslovakia's anti German ethnic cleansing 1945
At the end of the Second World War, Czech prime minister in exile Eduard Benes petitioned both western allies and the USSR to expel all ethnic German…
6 years, 7 months ago
Special Update: Report on the Coup: Part Two
The second in my reports on the current political crisis here in Great Britain.
Explaining History helps you understand the 20th Century through crit…
6 years, 8 months ago
Truman's Domestic Failures 1945-52
By 1945 the political landscape in America was changing in ways that would be far less favourable to Truman than the previous years had been to Roose…
6 years, 8 months ago
Special Update: Report from the coup August 2019
This is an unprecedented podcast for Explaining History, but in 2019 here in Britain we're in uncharted constitutional territory. I try not to engage…
6 years, 8 months ago
The Origins of Fascism: Part Three
Continuing the study of the background to European fascist thinking, this episode focuses on the impact of the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche on fascis…
6 years, 8 months ago
Stalinist social cleansing 1929-37
The Stalinist regime, in the mid 1930s brutally purged towns and cities of those they considered to be socially deviant. Beggars, gypsies, prostitute…
6 years, 8 months ago