Leon Trotsky was a Marxist revolutionary and Soviet politician who played a key role in the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. He was a close ally of Vladimir Lenin and served as the founder and commander of the Red Army. However, Trotsky was eventually exiled from the Soviet Union due to his opposition to Joseph Stalin’sContinue reading “The Exile of Leon Trotsky”
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Pravda and Stalin’s Terror
Noam Chomsky pointed out when he was observing the role of the press during the Vietnam War, that it had a significant role to play in atrocities. The job of print and broadcast media, he argued, was to legitimise and explain away mass killings and to tell the story of why they were necessary. LookingContinue reading “Pravda and Stalin’s Terror”
Stalin and HG Wells
Here is another article from the archives, one that I enjoyed writing some years ago on my teaching blog: Ok, so this might be useful for teachers of modern Britain (1930s) and teachers of Soviet Russia. In the early 1930s the USSR had a complex relationship with western intellectuals, it has been described by historianContinue reading “Stalin and HG Wells”
Stalin and the Gulags
Here I address the question as the the economic rationale behind the Gulag system and its dismantling after the Stalin era.
Churchill and Greece
Throughout the Second World War, Winston Churchill favoured a ‘Mediterranean Strategy’, believing that the ‘soft underbelly’ of Hitler’s Europe was Italy, Greece and the Balkans. By 1945, as the German occupiers of Greece withdrew in the face of a possible Red Army invasion Winston Churchill prioritised a British occupation of Greece to ensure that thereContinue reading “Churchill and Greece”
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