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Explaining History — 972 episodes · page 7 of 10
The Fall of Singapore 1942
The Truman Doctrine 1947
Nazi Propaganda and the camp system 1933-39
Ernest Bevin and Britain's World Role 1945-48
Britain, France and Vietnam 1945-7
The Fall of Malaya 1941
Mao and 'Red Star over China' 1936
Austria, Germany and popular attitudes in the July Crisis 1914
Churchill's government and the Nazi invasion of the USSR 1941
Soviet Occupation and Liberation 1945
Lenin, Stalin and the Soviet Peasants 1918-27
The Nazi Camps and the 'workshy'
The Maoist takeover of China 1949
British decision making and the Dardanelles Campaign 1915
America's cold war cross roads 1946-7
Artillery and Intelligence: Breaking the deadlock 1918
Stalinist consumerism and advertising
Austria, Germany and the Armistice 1918
The Long Telegram and the Iron Curtain Speech: February - March 1946
Lysenkoism, eugenics and the USSR
The British Empire and the Mandate system 1919
Criminal Prisoners in the Nazi Camps
John Lennon and Give Peace a Chance 1969
Hero Culture in Stalin's Russia 1928-41
Talking about Europe - Interview with Jacob Field
The expansion of the Indian Army 1939-43
Harold Wilson and Britain's 'special relationship' with America 1964-5
Truman's foreign policy problems 1945-46
Berlin and Munich in the 1920s
Asocial prisoners in the Nazi camp system
Soviet utopianism and the construction of Stalinist Russia
The Ottoman Empire and the First World War 1914 (PT1)
Roosevelt, Truman and Cold War diplomacy 1944-46
Kazakhstan's Dark Shadows: An interview with journalist Joanna Lillis
Britain and conscription 1945-49
Utopian thinking and everyday life in Stalin's Russia
The Battle of Vittorio Venetto - October 1918
Mao, Stalin and Khrushchev: 1949-57
The Nazi Party and Germany's working class 1933
The Armenian Legionnaires 1914-21
Oswald Mosley and post war British fascism 1945-66
Amateurism, incompetence and the Bolshevik seizure of power
American society and foreign policy 1945-47
Stalinism and the black market 1928-39
Prisoner's experiences in pre war Nazi camps 1933-39
Austria Hungary's Wartime Secret State 1914-18
The baby boom and post war America 1945-64
The British Counter-culture in the 1960s
The Nazi Party and German Monopoly Capitalism
French national pride and empire: 1944
Hunger and the Russian Revolution - 1917
Gandhi, Nehru and wartime crisis - 1940
Saving the Jews of Budapest
Nixon, returning POWs and the legacy of Vietnam
British working class identity, tv and affluence 1954 -1964
Creating the SS Death's Head Division
Defending Afghanistan 1937-1940
Roosevelt, Stalin and the Creation of the Grand Alliance
Italy and the Paris Peace Conference Part Two
French Internment of Spanish Refugees 1939-45
Truman's anti communist policy 1945-47
Japan's Strategic Failures 1940-41
Italy and the Paris Peace Conference
Margaret Thatcher and Thatcherism
Himmler's orders and the SS Camp System 1933-39
Erich Fromm and the Sane Society 1955
Rethinking Japan's war against China 1937-45
Mass consumerism in America 1945-60
The fall of Damascus and Mesopotamia 1918
Woodie Guthrie and the Dust Bowl
The Crushing of the Spartacists: 1919
Shops and shortages under Stalin 1929-39
Billie Holiday and Strange Fruit - 1939
The Freikorps vs the Red Army - Latvia 1919
The Siege of Leningrad Part Two
The problems of American rearmament: 1941
War exhaustion and the Central Powers
Social Mobility and the American Dream 1945-50
Hitler, Goering and the Four Year Plan
Lenin's Train to Russia: April 1917
The Defence of India -
The Siege of Leningrad Pt 1
America's post war boom (Part One) 1945-1973
Operation Typhoon: Hitler's failed bid to seize Moscow
India's Congress Party and the Muslim League: 1939-40
David Lloyd George and Adolf Hitler: 1936
Barbarossa Part Six: The end of the offensive
Anti Communism and America's Trade Unions 1945-49
The Ottoman Empire and the July Crisis
The Origins of MI5 1903-1909
SS Training and the Nazi Camp System
American War Production and Finance 1917-18
The Creation of Yugoslavia 1919 (Part One)
Zero Hour: The Soviet Occupation of Berlin, Budapest and Warsaw 1945
Franco's diplomacy and the defeat of fascism 1941-45
Hitler and Hjalmar Schacht
Barbarossa Pt 4: Stalin's ultimatum June-July 1941
The Butler Education Act 1944
Book Review: Babuska's Journey: The Dark Road to Stalin's Wartime Camps by Marcel Krueger
Nixon, Reagan and the crisis years of the 1970s