At the height of the Spanish Empire, the Manilla Galleon - an annual flotilla between Manilla and Acapulco - was considered the lifeline of Spain's economy, …
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Episode 71: The Rise and Fall of the Latvian National Communists
For a period in the 1950s known as the Khruschev Thaw, the Soviet Republics enjoyed a brief moment of relative autonomy from the heavy handed leadership of …
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Episode 69: The Amateur Photography Movement in the Soviet Union
In its early days, photography occupied an awkward middle ground between documentation and an art form, a debate which dragged on in the west for decades. The …
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