Episodes

  • UK Politics: Party Systems

    UK Politics: Party Systems
    Dec 5 2023
    A look at how we catorgorise UK politicsl parties and what a Party system is and how we could approach an essay defining the type of party system that best describes the UK.
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    41 mins
  • Episode 16: The Cold War: The Collapse of the Warsaw Pact

    Episode 16: The Cold War: The Collapse of the Warsaw Pact
    May 1 2023
    In this episode I look at the events in Eastern Europe in 1988-89 that resulted from Gorbachev's New Thinking and how they would lead to the collapse of the Warsaw Pact and freedom and political changes that would effectively end the Cold War in Europe.
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    33 mins
  • Episode 15: The Cold War: Gorbachev and the ending of the Cold War

    Episode 15: The Cold War: Gorbachev and the ending of the Cold War
    Apr 28 2023
    A look at Gorbachev and his New Thinking, including rhe impact it had on the Soviet Union, the Warsaw Pact and the Cold War with America.
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    33 mins
  • Episode 14: The Cold War: Changing leaders 1980-85

    Episode 14: The Cold War: Changing leaders 1980-85
    Apr 26 2023
    A look at the period 1980-85 and the changing leadership in the USSR
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    11 mins
  • Episode 13: The Cold War: Reagan and the Second Cold War

    Episode 13: The Cold War: Reagan and the Second Cold War
    Apr 26 2023
    Looking at Reagan’s more aggressive stance and the beginning of a more aggressive period in the Cold War after Detente.
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    25 mins
  • Episode 12: The Cold War: Solidarity

    Episode 12: The Cold War: Solidarity
    Apr 23 2023
    A look at the rise of Solidarity in Poland in the ewrly 1980s, consdering its importance for the rest of the Cold War
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    20 mins
  • Episode 11: The Cold War: The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

    Episode 11: The Cold War: The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
    Mar 23 2023
    An episode looking at the wvents around the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Sometimes described as the USSR’s Vietnam, it ended detente and drained the USSR leading to the eventual collapse of Communism in Europe.
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    27 mins
  • Episode 10: The Cold War: Detente

    Episode 10: The Cold War: Detente
    Mar 19 2023
    A look at what detente was and why it happened. Its a vague idea thet reflects a concept more than an wvwnt but I’ll be looking at the impact it had on the Cold War, the key events within it and touch in its ending
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    36 mins