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Nixon, Ford and Carter 1974-1980
In the mid to late 1970s, faith in politicians and a belief in the moral sanctity of the office of President went into decline in the USA. The Waterg…
9 years, 10 months ago
The British Labour Movement 1880-1914
How did the British Labour Party emerge after 1900, from a wide array of affiliated socialist parties and trade unions? This podcast explores the ori…
9 years, 11 months ago
The Democratic National Convention 1968
In August 1968, during a year of violence and political tension in America, protesters fought a pitched battle in the streets of Chicago with the pol…
9 years, 11 months ago
Antonio Gramsci
Between 1926 and 1937 the Marxist intellectual Antonio Gramsci was imprisoned by Mussolini's fascist government following the dictator's crack down o…
9 years, 11 months ago
East German Anti Semitism 1949
In 1949, following the creation of the Soviet controlled German Democratic Republic, Walter Ulbricht, the German Communist Party leader unleashed a w…
10 years ago
MacArthur and Japan
In 1945, following the dropping of two atom bombs on Japan, General Douglas MacArthur became the ruler of the country for six years. He imposed on Ja…
10 years ago
The Fall of Budapest
In January 1945 the city of Budapest was surrounded by the Red Army and Hitler's occupying forces made a desperate and futile last stand. The siege o…
10 years ago
Poland, Palestine and Zionism
In the second half of the 1930s the Polish Government abandoned its previously liberal policies towards Poland's large Jewish population and instead…
10 years ago
The Counterculture and the 1960s
In the 1960s a diverse movement of protest and activism closely associated (but not limited to) the hippy movement developed in the USA. The politici…
10 years ago
Brezhnev and Soviet Stagnation
When Leonid Brezhnev came to power in 1964 he was determined to undo many of the liberalising reforms of his predecessor Nikita Khrushchev. However, …
10 years, 1 month ago