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Britain's Labour Government 1945-51
In 1945, at the end of the Second World War, the Labour Party swept to power on a mandate of social reform. Six years later, despite the creation of …
11 years ago
The Fall of Budapest, 2945
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…
11 years ago
Poland, Palestine and Zionism
In the mid 1930s the Polish government contemplated the mass deportation of its large Jewish population to the British Mandate of Palestine. This ant…
11 years ago
The Bandung Conference
In 1955 one of the most important international conferences of the 20th Century took place in Bandung, Indonesia. The leaders of the recently decolon…
11 years, 1 month 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, …
11 years, 1 month ago
Mao and China's Peasants
In the immediate aftermath of the Chinese Civil War and the seizure of power by the Chinese Communist Party, Mao Zedong began a violent struggle for …
11 years, 1 month ago
The Amritsar Massacre
In the immediate aftermath of the First World War, British anxieties over revolutionary tensions in India were high. The action of a lone British gen…
11 years, 1 month ago
Rudolf Hoess
When Rudolf Hoess, the commandant of Auschwitz between 1940 and 1943 was tried for his crimes in 1947 he was open and revealing about the process of …
11 years, 2 months ago
The Congress of Berlin
In 1878 tensions over the Balkans were close to exploding into a major European war. German Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck held a conference in Berlin …
11 years, 2 months ago
The Frankfurt School
In 1922, during the turbulent early years of the Weimar Republic a social research institute was established in Frankfurt. It was set up by Marxist i…
11 years, 2 months ago