For four months in 1871, angry citizens of Paris seized control of the city after a humiliating defeat against the Prussian Empire and the collapse of the …
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 68: The Russian Empire on the Eve of World War 1
World War I is often described as "the war to end all wars," a global conflagration unprecedented in human society whose outbreak reshaped the face of Europe, …
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