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Britain, Russia and the Eastern Question
Throughout the 19th Century Britain felt constantly threatened by and suspicious of Russia. Russian expansionism in the Balkans threatened Britain's …
11 years, 7 months ago
Weimar Germany's Roaring 20s
Between 1924 and 1929 Germany's economy and politics seemed to stabilise and recover from the violence, unrest and revolution of the previous four ye…
11 years, 8 months ago
Oswald Mosley
In 1932 Oswald Mosley formed the British Union of Fascists, basing his new party firstly on Italian Fascism and later German Nazism. Within four year…
11 years, 8 months ago
Friedrich Hayek
There are few economists in the 20th Century who have had the effect on politics and economics in the western world that Friedrich Hayek achieved. Hi…
11 years, 8 months ago
The Russian Civil War
Between 1918 and 1921 the Russian Civil War claimed 14 million civilian and military lives. The conflict between the new Bolshevik government and the…
11 years, 8 months ago
Lenin's Red Terror 1918
How did Lenin manage to assert his control over Russia in the aftermath of the October Revolution? The new Bolshevik Government used hunger and terro…
11 years, 8 months ago
The Provisional Government: Russia 1917
In March 1917 a provisional government established itself in Russia in the aftermath of the downfall of the Tsar. By October 1917 it had been swept a…
11 years, 8 months ago
The Casablanca Conference
In early 1943 the tide of the Second World War was turning in favour of the allies, following victories in North Africa. At Casablanca the British an…
11 years, 9 months ago
Dien Bien Phu
In 1945 France returned to its former colony in Indochina, determined to re-assert control after humiliation by Japan. The nationalist Vietminh were …
11 years, 9 months ago
Kruschev and the Secret Speech 1956
in 1956 Soviet leader Nikita Kruschev spoke for the first time the 20th Party Congress about the crimes of his predecessor Joseph Stalin. His speech …
11 years, 9 months ago