Explaining History

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Por Nick Shepley
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The Origins of Mao's Cultural Revolution

In 1966 after four years of existing at the margins of the Chinese Communist Party following the...

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Erich Fromm

Erich Fromm, one of the most overlooked intellectual figures of the 20th Century wrote insightful...

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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...

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The Creation of the Red Army

by early 1918 the Bolshevik's revolution was in serious danger of being overthrown. Instead of...

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Churchill and Greece

When the Nazis' occupation of Greece ended and a gradual withdrawal turned into a desperate...

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Menachim Begin and Irgun

Towards the end of the Second World War, zionist terrorist Menachem Begin and the paramilitary...

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Evacuation

Throughout the 1920s and 1930s the British became increasingly aware that they were vulnerable to...

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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...

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Lyndon Johnson 1963-64

Lyndon Johnson had an antagonistic relationship with the Kennedy brothers but was indispensable...

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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...

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Inflation 1916-1923

The massive increase in government spending, borrowing and currency devaluation that occurred...

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Book Review: Aftermath

This month's book review: Aftermath by Richard Crowder, the story of the Potsdam Conference and...

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Orde Wingate and Palestine

In 1936 a British Christian Zionist army officer, Orde Wingate, was posted to the British Mandate...

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Ukraine 1918

As the Tsarist empire collapsed and Russia's new rulers, the Bolsheviks, negotiated with Germany...

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Stalinist Consumerism

In the mid 1930s, the Soviet Union claimed that living standards in the USSR had surpassed those...

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Exams Advice 2015

A few useful thoughts for history students facing their exams in the next couple of weeks....

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Mao's Hundred Flowers Campaign

Between 1956 and 1957 Mao Zedong took the unprecedented step of encouraging criticism amongst the...

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The Liberation of Belsen

Seventy years ago this month the British Army discovered a scene of unimaginable horror at a...

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