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				<title><![CDATA[The Purges in the USSR]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[The purges in the USSR started in the mid-1930?s and continued throughout the late 1930?s. Joseph Stalin had shared power with Zinoviev and Kamenev in the time after the death of Lenin (1924) and he had no intention of ever being put in that position again. By the mid-1930?s Stalin believed that the Bolshevik Party ?Old Guard? represented a threat to him and unless he did something about them they]]>...</description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 19:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[The Show Trials in the USSR]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[The show trials that took place in Stalin?s USSR had a very specific purpose for Stalin. The show trials were not held in secret but were, as their title suggests, in the open with foreign journalists invited and were there to prove to those in the USSR who were interested&nbsp; that ?enemies of the state? still existed despite the ?Red Terror? and that state leaders such as Stalin were at risk. T]]>...</description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[The Red Terror]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[The Red Terror was carried out in post-revolutionary Russia by the Cheka headed by Felix Dzerzhinsky along with units of the Red Army. The Red Terror started as a result of an attempt to kill Vladimir Lenin by Fanni Kaplin in August 1918 and the murder of the Cheka leader in St. Petersburg. This failed assassination attempt on Lenin was used as a rationale for the secret police and the army to rou]]>...</description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Felix Dzerzhinsky]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Felix Dzerzhinsky was the first head of the feared Cheka, the first name given to post-revolutionary Russia?s secret police force. Dzerzhinsky was born on September 11th 1877 and died on July 20th 1926. For all the power Dzerzhinsky wielded in the Cheka, he actually joined the Bolshevik Party quite late in his life. However, Dzerzhinsky always had the full support of Vladimir Lenin even when the w]]>...</description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[The Cheka]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[The Cheka was used by Vladimir Lenin to consolidate his power after the November 1917 Revolution.&nbsp; The Cheka was the first of numerous Soviet government apparatuses created to control the people ? others being later organisations such as the OGPU and the KGB. Because of the very long formal titles that these organisations had, many had nicknames by which they have eventually become known. For]]>...</description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Nicolai Bukharin]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Nikolai Bukharin played an important part in the Russian Revolution. Bukharin was seen as being a member of the Bolshevik Party?s ?Old Guard? and such a label led to him being one of the men put on trial during Joseph Stalin?s show trials held in the mid to late 1930?s. Bukharin was to pay with his life for his ?treasonable activities?.
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Nikolai Bukharin was born on September 27th 1888. Hi]]>...</description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 09:42:18 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Gregory Zinoviev]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Gregory Zinoviev was a leading member of the Bolshevik Party. Zinoviev was a loyal follower of Vladimir Lenin but after Lenin?s death and the rise of Joseph Stalin to power, his days were numbered by a man who could not tolerate anyone appearing to be the merest of rivals to him and Zinoviev was seen by Stalin as a rival.
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Zinoviev was born on September 23rd 1883. His father was a farmer. ]]>...</description>
				<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 21:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Lev Kamenev]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Lev Kamenev was a leading Bolshevik who followed Lenin after the Social Democrats split in 1903. Kamenev like so many other ?old school Bolsheviks? paid the price when Joseph Stalin?s purges took place in the mid-1930?s.
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Kamenev was born in Moscow on July 16th 1883. Both his parents had been involved in radical politics so it was not unusual when Kamenev himself drifted in that direction ]]>...</description>
				<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 21:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Kindertransport]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Kindertransport was the title given to the efforts made by the British government prior to the outbreak of World War Two to bring out of Nazi Germany and occupied Austria and Czechoslovakia Jewish children. Kindertransport was an attempt to remove these children from an increasingly perilous situation whereby war looked almost inevitable. During a nine-month period, 10,000 Jewish children aged bet]]>...</description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 08:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Young Girls League]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[The Young Girls League (Jungm?delbund or JM) was part of the League of German Girls (Bund Deutscher M?del) but catered for young girls aged from ten years to fourteen years. Once girls in the Young Girls League had reached fourteen they moved to the League of German Girls the BDM. The Jungm?del organisation was all part of the umbrella Hitler Youth movement that was separated into boys and girls s]]>...</description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 13:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Germany and Militarism]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[The influence of the military in Wilhelm II?s Germany is well illustrated by the true story of ?The Captain of K&#337;penick?. The story of the ?The Captain of K&#337;penick? took place on October 16th 1906. ?The Captain of K&#337;penick? was in fact a shoe maker called Wilhelm Voigt. Voigt had a criminal past who found it difficult to keep a job once an employer had found out about his past. He a]]>...</description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 14:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Friedrich von Holstein]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Friedrich von Holstein (1837 to 1909) was seen even by some of his own contemporaries within Germany as the man who had to bear a great deal of responsibility for the state Europe was in as it drifted towards World War One. &nbsp;While Holstein never held any post of great importance within foreign affairs, it was generally believed by his contemporaries that he was a major mover with regards to E]]>...</description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 14:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Bernhard von Bulow]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Prince Bernhard von B?low was born in Klein-Flottbeck on the lower Elbe in 1849. B?low spent his formative years in the Prussian court before joining the diplomatic service in 1874. In June 1897 he was appointed state secretary at the German Foreign Ministry and it was in this position that he became well known among other European foreign ministers. They found B?low to be a charming and plausible]]>...</description>
				<pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2012 10:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Ireland in the Nineteenth Century]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Ireland's  history in the Nineteenth Century saw the
seeds sown that explains Ireland's  history in the Twentieth Century. The
so-called 'Irish Problem' did not suddenly occur in one set year in the
Nineteenth Century. Ireland's problems go much further back . Oliver Cromwell,
who governed Britain in the mid-Seventeenth Century and at the time when Britain
was a republic, detested Roman Catho]]>...</description>
				<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2012 20:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Theophile Delcasse]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Th?ophile Delcass? was French Foreign Minister during the First Moroccan Crisis. Delcass? was known to be a politician who wanted to restore French pride after their defeat in the Franco-Prussian war (1870-71) and he was not prepared for Germany to have any influence in Morocco.
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Delcass? was born at Parmiers in southern France in 1852. He trained as a journalist and worked for ?La R?publi]]>...</description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[The Palestinian Liberation Organisation]]></title>
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The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) was established in May 1964 in Jordan.
The Palestine Liberation Organisation was a group that sort to combine various Arab
organisations under one banner. The PLO?s primary objective was to gain
(though from their point of view regain) the land handed by the  United Nations
to Israel. The PLO's impact on recent Middle
East history has been m]]>...</description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[The 1957 Civil Rights Act]]></title>
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The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was introduced in Eisenhower?s
presidency and was the act that kick-started the civil
rights legislative programme that was to include the 1964
Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting
Rights Act. Eisenhower had not been known for his support of the  civil rights movement.
Rather than lead the country on the issue, he had to respond to problems such as
in Little ]]>...</description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Causes of the Cold War in 1945]]></title>
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* American fear of communist attack
* Truman?s dislike of  Stalin
* USSR?s fear of the American's atomic bomb&nbsp;
* USSR?s dislike of capitalism
* USSR?s actions in the  Soviet zone of Germany
* America?s refusal to share nuclear secrets
* USSR?s expansion west into Eastern Europe +
broken election promises
* USSR?s fear of American attack
* USSR?s need for a secure western border
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				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 21:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Henry IV]]></title>
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Henry IV of France was born&nbsp; in 1553 and
died in 1610. Henry IV is considered one of the greatest kings of France
and was instrumental in ending the French Wars Of Religion.
A Calvinist, he converted
to Catholicism to satisfy the wishes of 90% or more of the population of France.
Henry IV was the first of the Bourbon dynasty.
Henry was educated as a Calvinist and enjoyed the outdoor
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				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 19:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[The Dominions and World War One]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[The Dominions played a major part in World War One. Once Great Britain had declared war on Germany on August 4th 1914, not only was Great Britain at war but so were the Dominions.&nbsp; About 400,000,000 people lived in the Dominions and they potentially could provide the British war effort with an almost unlimited amount of manpower and supplies. The self-governing dominions could decide whether ]]>...</description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 16:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
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