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Politics and the First World War

The First World War put unprecedented strains on the economic...

From the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the 1880s...

The second lecture in the series turned to Germany, where...

By December 1941 the Third Reich had reached the apogee...

When Lenin died in 1924, he had effected a temporary...

In the early 1880s, informal imperial expansion gave way to...

In 1982, Argentina, which had long claimed the Falklands, invaded...

The third lecture in the series asked why so many...

Nearly half a century ago, the historian A. J. P...

The most durable dictators in twentieth-century Europe were Communists dictators...