Explaining History

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Explaining History episodes

July 11, 2014 Kruschev and the Secret Speech 1956
in 1956 Soviet leader Nikita Kruschev spoke for the first time the 20th Party Congress about the crimes of his predecessor Joseph Stalin. His speech shocked those gathered and had profound consequences for the future of the Soviet regime, this podcast explores why. You can read more about this in our three ebooks on the Soviet Regime and communism: The Communist Century: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Communist-Century-Revolution-Series-ebook/dp/B00IN6PY40/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1393664105&sr=8-1&keywords=chris+kostovExplaining the Russian Revolution: A Student's Guide: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Explaining-Russian-Revolution-Students-ebook/dp/B00FX18BOS/ref=la_B005ORPZFO_1_16?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1381871360&sr=1-16Stalin, the Five Year Plans and the Gulags: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stalin-five-plans-Gulags-ebook/dp/B00DQUWPYK/ref=sr_1_12?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373383782&sr=1-12
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23 min
July 10, 2014 Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression
By the end of the First World War Herbert Hoover was a national hero in America for his humanitarian work. A decade later he was engulfed in an economic catastrophe following the Wall Street Crash that would claim his career and reputation. This podcast explores the contradictions and paradoxes of Hoover's character and life.Check out the Explaining History ebook on Hoover and the crash here:http://www.amazon.co.uk/Roaring-Wall-Street-Crash-ebook/dp/B005G4PK8W
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25 min
July 09, 2014 The Heath Government 1970-74
By the early 1970s a perfect storm of inflation and mounting industrial unrest brought the government of Edward Heath to its knees. His plans to introduce free market economics and politics to Britain were abandoned and he was outmanoeuvred by the National Union of Mineworkers, resulting in the 1974 three day week.This podcast explores the crises that beset Heath and their origins in the Wilson years of the late 1960s.
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23 min
June 27, 2014 The Scramble For China
From the 1840s onwards China endured over half a century of an unprecedented onslaught from Britain and other western powers. She was defeated, humiliated and forced to sign treaties that drained her of her wealth, Japan quickly reformed her economy and military to prevent the same process from occurring. This podcast explores the relationship between the west's 'Scramble For China' and the downfall of the Qing Dynasty. You can also download the companion ebook here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sun-Yat-birth-modern-China-ebook/dp/B00DJE8ANI
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27 min
June 06, 2014 Book Review: Memoirs and Mad Charges
The monthly round up of review titles new and old. This month's featured titles are:
Under The Wire by Paul Conroy:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Under-Wire-Marie-Colvins-Assignment/dp/1602862362
Keane's Challenge by Iain Gale:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Keanes-Challenge-Iain-Gale/dp/1780873646/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1402056933&sr=1-1&keywords=keane%27s+challenge
Into the Jaws of Death by Robert Lynman
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Into-Jaws-Death-Legendary-Saint-Nazaire/dp/1782064443/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1402056980&sr=1-1&keywords=into+the+jaws+of+death+by+robert+lyman
And A Wondering Jew by John Fieldsend
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May 29, 2014 2014 Exams Special
If your history exam is coming soon and you need a bit of help and guidance, take fifteen minutes out of your study schedule and listen to this podcast. Creating an argument and a strong introduction and paragraph structure is covered here, and also details of how to access my one to one online exam coaching.
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May 27, 2014 The Baader Meinhof Gang
Why did West Germany suffer a decade of terrorism from 1967-77? During the height of Vietnam War protests, a generation of radical West German students saw a relationship between the West German Government's support for America's war and their own unresolved Nazi past. Their decision to wage an urban war against what they saw as a barely concealed Nazism would culminate in the bloody summer of 1977.
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26 min
May 20, 2014 Strength Through Joy
In 1933 Hitler established a state run mass leisure organisation in Germany to help develop his vision of a socially unified, racially homogenous society. The extent to which it was successful has been an area of debate by historians of Nazi Germany and is explored in this podcast.
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13 min
May 16, 2014 British Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
Between 1936 and 1938 nearly 2,000 British men and women travelled in secret to Spain to fight on the side of the Spanish Republic against a nationalist military rebellion. Motivated by fears of a fascist Europe and by the intervention on Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy on the side of the rebels, the men and women of the international brigade suffered appalling hardship and losses in an ultimately doomed struggle. Here is a short introduction exploring the context of their idealistic fight.Also check out Orwell's time in Spain here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/George-Orwell-Explaining-History-Century-ebook/dp/B00HLRW8YQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1392218617&sr=8-1&keywords=julia+routledge+george+orwell
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18 min
May 12, 2014 The Murder of Matteotti
When the Italian Socialist Giacomo Matteotti was assassinated in 1924, parts of the nation were united in outrage, strongly suspecting that their Prime Minister Mussolini was behind the killing. How did Mussolini manage to turn the situation to his advantage and emerge as the dictator of Italy a year later?
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16 min