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The Nazi Camps and the 'workshy'
For those unable or unwilling to offer manual labour in service of the Nazi volksgemeinschaft, mass arrests and imprisonment in the growing camp syst…
6 years, 11 months ago
Lenin, Stalin and the Soviet Peasants 1918-27
By 1927 the situation of the Soviet peasantry had just about stabilised from the famine years of the Russian Civil War. However, both Lenin and Stali…
6 years, 11 months ago
The Maoist takeover of China 1949
Following the end of a bloody civil war in China, the communist party began to rapidly seize the levers of power and create class categorisations for…
6 years, 11 months ago
British decision making and the Dardanelles Campaign 1915
A complete absence of intelligence about new German guns along the Dardanelles led Britain into a disastrous campaign against the Ottoman Empire in 1…
6 years, 11 months ago
America's cold war cross roads 1946-7
By 1946 America's political class, it's intellectuals and opinion formers and the population as a whole was broadly anti Soviet but had not committed…
7 years ago
Artillery and Intelligence: Breaking the deadlock 1918
After three years of fixed positions, trenches and deadlock, the First World War became a conflict of rapid movement again in 1918. This podcast expl…
7 years ago
Stalinist consumerism and advertising
Between 1928 and 1935, bread rationing in the USSR had been implemented due to the extraction of foodstuffs from the peasantry for export and Stalin'…
7 years ago
Austria, Germany and the Armistice 1918
By October 1918, the resolve of the central powers to carry on the war was crumbling. The Austro Hungarian Empire fragmented following a manifesto by…
7 years ago
The Long Telegram and the Iron Curtain Speech: February - March 1946
In a two month period Truman's policy towards the Soviet Union became more entrenched in the face of Soviet advances in eastern Europe and Iran. Trum…
7 years ago
Lysenkoism, eugenics and the USSR
During the Stalin era, the science of genetics came under a sustained attack and was denounced as a bourgeois ideology. This podcast explores the cha…
7 years, 1 month ago