This podcast explores StalinStalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician, dictator and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. Read More’s plans for Poland in the run up to the outbreak of the Second World War, and Neville Chamberlain’s flawed diplomacy in the aftermath of the fall of Czechoslovakia. Stalin’s secret diplomacy with both the western allies and the Nazis and his determination to see Poland destroyed as a state shaped the events between March and September 1939.Explaining History helps you understand the 20th Century through critical conversations and expert interviews. We connect the pas
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For more than a decade, the Explaining History Podcast has helped listeners around the world make sense of modern history. What began in 2012 as a simple experiment—short, accessible episodes explaining major historical events—has grown into a long-running library of carefully researched, thoughtful explorations of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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