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The advance of the fascist right in Spain 1933-4
In November 1933 the reactionary movement CEDA became the a key part of a new right wing government. CEDA actively proposed a violent fascist coup an…
6 years, 10 months ago
The Marshall Plan 1947-2
The Marshall Plan was the most successful use of American soft power in the country's history. By offering $13 billion in economic aid to rebuild wes…
6 years, 10 months ago
Class persecution and former people in Stalinist Russia 1928-39
In the USSR during the Stalinist era, class origins defined all aspects of an individual and by the end of the decade were a matter of life and death…
6 years, 10 months ago
American air doctrine and the B-17a bomber
The development of air power in the USA from 1938 onwards in the shape of the B-17a four engine bomber was not matched by an official air doctrine, b…
6 years, 10 months ago
The militarisation of the SS 1933-39
By 1939 the Camp SS, normally responsible for controlling prisons such as Dachau was equipped and trained to fight at the front line. This podcast ex…
6 years, 10 months ago
Mao's Famine and Szechuan Province 1958-62
In four years between 1958-62 a catastrophic famine in China killed 40 million people and a quarter of those died in Szechuan, a food rich province. …
6 years, 10 months ago
Indian soldiers and the defence of Egypt in 1914-15
At the start of the First World War, Egypt and the Suez Canal were vital to the functioning of the British Empire and were under huge pressure from a…
6 years, 10 months ago
Social conflict in Spain 1933
After two short years of social reform under the socialist PSOE party in Spain a new right wing government came to power led by the conservative part…
6 years, 10 months ago
The escalation of the French Vietnamese War 1946-9
By the end of 1946 a guerrilla war was being waged by the new Democratic Republic of Vietnam against the colonial French in the south, but developmen…
6 years, 10 months ago
Creating a new podcast for Explaining History - an appeal to listeners
Hi everyone, I'm sending out this podcast today to invite you all to collaborate in the creation of a new podcast focusing on contemporary political,…
6 years, 10 months ago