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The Ku Klux Klan 1915-24
During the First World War the racist terrorist organisation the Ku Klux Klan reformed and by 1924 boasted four million members. However five years l…
10 years, 7 months ago
The Berlin Wall 1961
In August 1961 East German and Soviet forces created a wall around West Berlin, preventing East Germans from fleeing to the west. The failures of Sov…
10 years, 8 months ago
John Lennon in America: 1970-73
In the early 1970s John Lennon embarked on a brief and rather inglorious career as a political activist while based in America. His activism was an i…
10 years, 8 months ago
The Origins of Mao's Cultural Revolution
In 1966 after four years of existing at the margins of the Chinese Communist Party following the disasters of the Great Leap Forward, Mao Zedong retu…
10 years, 8 months ago
Erich Fromm
Erich Fromm, one of the most overlooked intellectual figures of the 20th Century wrote insightful critiques of consumerist capitalism and explanation…
10 years, 9 months ago
East Germany and the Sino Soviet Split
By the early 1960s the once cordial relations between the USSR and The People's Republic of China had been replaced by suspicion and animosity. Two r…
10 years, 9 months ago
The Creation of the Red Army
by early 1918 the Bolshevik's revolution was in serious danger of being overthrown. Instead of elite troops the new government possessed poorly disc…
10 years, 9 months ago
Churchill and Greece
When the Nazis' occupation of Greece ended and a gradual withdrawal turned into a desperate retreat from the Red Army, a civil war in Greece began. T…
10 years, 9 months ago
Menachim Begin and Irgun
Towards the end of the Second World War, zionist terrorist Menachem Begin and the paramilitary organisation Irgun instigated their own war against th…
10 years, 10 months ago
Evacuation
Throughout the 1920s and 1930s the British became increasingly aware that they were vulnerable to air attack, especially after the rise of Nazism in …
10 years, 10 months ago