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The Bolsheviks and the Peacemakers 1919
Continuing from a previous podcast on the complications of the Russian Revolution to the attempts to create a European peace in 1919, this episode fo…
8 years, 6 months ago
American Labour Militancy 1945-46
In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War a strong, organised American working class movement faced an uncertain future of stagnating wages …
8 years, 7 months ago
Eisenhower, the CIA and the death of Stalin
The cold war certainties that existed up until March 1953 were thrown into doubt when Stalin died, leaving Eisenhower and his spy chief Alan Dulles w…
8 years, 7 months ago
Hitler's Civil Service
In 1933 Hitler sought to extend his power over the German Civil Service and to politicise it by purging non Nazis. However, he hoped to achieve this …
8 years, 7 months ago
Britain's early victories in the desert war 1940-41
Despite being vastly outnumbered in Egypt, a small British Empire force inflicted devastating losses on a vast Italian Army. Mussolini's poorly led a…
8 years, 7 months ago
The rights of American Women 1945-55
In the immediate aftermath of World War Two, women left war industries in huge numbers and some entered the domestic sphere. However the view that wo…
8 years, 7 months ago
The Politics of Stalinism Part One
This podcast is the first of several that explore the inner workings of the Soviet State and the Communist Party under Stalin after 1928.
Explaining …
8 years, 7 months ago
Booker T Washington and the Jim Crow Era
Between 1890 and 1915 the eradication of political, social and economic gains that black Americans had achieved after the Civil War in the Reconstruc…
8 years, 7 months ago
Hitler's personality and German Government
After fifteen years of 'struggle' Hitler brought to orderly German Government the politics of the demagogue and the populist, and retreated from the …
8 years, 7 months ago
Bolshevik Russia and the Paris Peacemakers - 1919
While revolution and civil war tore the former Russian Empire apart, the British, French and American leaders at the Paris Peace Conference were unsu…
8 years, 7 months ago