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In the immediate post war years, the arrival of Black British citizens from the Caribbean was met with widespread racism across most areas of British life. Black people encountering Britain for the first time discovered not a wealthy land of enterprise but one with a poor white working class whom assumed superiority by dint of their skin colour. Help the podcast to continue bringing you history each weekIf you enjoy the Explaining History podcast and its many years of content and would like to
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In this episode of the podcast we continue with our study of the AQA syllabus – Russia 1917-53: Revolution and Dictatorship. We explore the nature of Stalin’s first Five Year Plan and its economic and social consequences. Help the podcast to continue bringing you history each weekIf you enjoy the Explaining History podcast and its many years of content and would like to help the show continue, please consider supporting it in the following ways:If you want to go ad-free, you can take out a membe
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Lenin had no intention of national independence for Ukraine or any of the other non Russian nations of the former Tsarist empire. This podcast explores how the Bolsheviks responded to the national movement in Ukraine during the Russian Civil War.Help the podcast to continue bringing you history each weekIf you enjoy the Explaining History podcast and its many years of content and would like to help the show continue, please consider supporting it in the following ways:If you want to go ad-free,
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Franklin Roosevelt knew that supporting black emancipation in the south would lose critical southern white support for the New Deal and so ignored for the most part the plight of black Americans and the horrors of lynching. During the 1950s and 1960s the coalition of black and white voters that the Democrats drew to them began to fragment as black rights advanced throughout the period. This was a key factor in the fragmentation of the New Deal’s support base, which was ruthlessly exploited by Ri
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Karl Marx is the most influential figure in the production of 20th Century history texts, influencing Marxist and non Marxist historians alike. This is the first part of our exploration of his significance and the debates surrounding his legacy.Help the podcast to continue bringing you history each weekIf you enjoy the Explaining History podcast and its many years of content and would like to help the show continue, please consider supporting it in the following ways:If you want to go ad-free, y
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The sudden collapse of the Assad regime and the actions and intentions of the regional and global powers involved present us with strange contradictions, but we must also be aware of the terrible human cost of the conflict as tens of thousands of Syrians and other nationals remain in squalid concentration camps across the country, the final victims of ISIS. Help the podcast to continue bringing you history each weekIf you enjoy the Explaining History podcast and its many years of content and wou
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In 1935, Italy invaded Abyssinia, creating one of final crises of the League of Nations. The deal made between British Foreign Secretary Samuel Hoare and his counterpart Pierre Laval to allow League of Nations sanctions against Italy to be broken led to widespread outrage. What did ordinary British people think about tihs and how did it shape the actions of the political class?Help the podcast to continue bringing you history each weekIf you enjoy the Explaining History podcast and its many year
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This is part ten of the Explaining History study course based on the AQA A level history module Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-53.In this episode we examine Stalin’s motivation for the Great Turning, and the economic, political and strategic reasons for the Five Year Plans.Help the podcast to continue bringing you history each weekIf you enjoy the Explaining History podcast and its many years of content and would like to help the show continue, please consider supporting it in the foll
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American conservatism fundamentally changed in 2016, its old nostrums were destroyed by the Trump movement and replaced with a mixture of MAGA nationalism and anarchocapitalism. This episode explores the different strands of thought in Trump’s coalition.Help the podcast to continue bringing you history each weekIf you enjoy the Explaining History podcast and its many years of content and would like to help the show continue, please consider supporting it in the following ways:If you want to go a
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How did Stalin’s terror spread to incorporate more and more victims? This podcast episode explores the effect of Stalin’s terror on ordinary people and how denunciations, confessions and the effect of ‘contagion’ caused the terror to metastasise.Help the podcast to continue bringing you history each weekIf you enjoy the Explaining History podcast and its many years of content and would like to help the show continue, please consider supporting it in the following ways:If you want to go ad-free,