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Britain, America and Palestine 1939-42
During the Second World War, the fate of British and French mandates in the Middle East was a constant pressure on war time diplomacy and on American…
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Exile and deportation in Stalinist Russia 1928-41
Administrative exile had been used by the Tsarist regime against political dissidents and the revolutionary intelligentsia, however the mass deportat…
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The Nazi Quarry Camps 1938-40
Hitler's vision of a new Germany, built in vast neoclassical grandeur, required stone to be quarried and bricks to be manufactured in vast quantities…
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The origins of fascism: part one
In the late 19th Century a series of intellectual and ideological movements coalesced into the beginnings of fascist thought. Romanticism, nationalis…
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Truman and Congress 1945-46
In 1945 Truman inherited from Roosevelt a more prosperous America, but one which had moved politically to the right. Rising living standards and the …
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Forced labour and the Nazi camp system
During the 1930s the Nazi regime attempted to exploit prisoners for their labour but there were few examples of successful profiteering and as the de…
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Building Mao's police state 1949
Initially, Mao proceeded with caution against the social enemies of the Communist Party, using the tools of state repression left behind by Chiang Ka…
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Intelligence gathering and the First World War
During the four years of the First World War, intelligence gathering from informants, captured soldiers, aerial reconnaissance and signals traffic de…
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Expulsion, disenfranchisement and class war in Stalinist Russia
By the late 1920s alinist fears of subversion by enemy social classes saw the disenfranchisement and expulsion from jobs and homes of members of the …
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The RAF, empire and strategic bombing 1918-39
In the inter war years as air policy developed in Britain, 'air policing' of the British Empire was a strategy adopted by the RAF in order to wage ae…
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