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Hunger, housing and the First Five Year Plan
During Stalin's First Five Year Plan (1928-1932), the Russian population experienced greater material hardship and shortages than at any time since t…
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Lyndon Johnson 1963-64
Lyndon Johnson had an antagonistic relationship with the Kennedy brothers but was indispensable to John F Kennedy as a political fixer. Following Ken…
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The Representation of the People Act 1918
In March 1918 in Britain, Parliament voted to enfranchise property owning women for the first time. This podcast explores the wartime decisions that …
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Nixon, Ford and Carter 1974-1980
In the second half of the 1970s Americans developed a profound disillusionment with politics and a skepticism towards the office of president. The im…
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Inflation 1916-1923
The massive increase in government spending, borrowing and currency devaluation that occurred during the First World War by all powers led to a glob…
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Orde Wingate and Palestine
In 1936 a British Christian Zionist army officer, Orde Wingate, was posted to the British Mandate in Palestine to help quell the Arab revolt. Wingate…
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Ukraine 1918
As the Tsarist empire collapsed and Russia's new rulers, the Bolsheviks, negotiated with Germany at Brest Litovsk, the most important territory to bo…
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Stalinist Consumerism
In the mid 1930s, the Soviet Union claimed that living standards in the USSR had surpassed those in the capitalist world. For a brief period during t…
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Mao's Hundred Flowers Campaign
Between 1956 and 1957 Mao Zedong took the unprecedented step of encouraging criticism amongst the people of the Chinese Communist Party. The deluge o…
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The Berlin Crisis 1961
In 1961, the city of Berlin, divided between East and West since 1945 saw a more permanent division erected. A wall that cut the city in two prevente…
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