Meet The Historians Podcast
5 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 10 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHello and welcome to andallthat.co.uk’s new podcast series: Meet the Historians. Over the course of this first series I will be talking to a number of historians who have written about the Soviet Union and finding out a bit more about their historical methods and approaches. I will also be exploring their interpretations of key topics such as: Stalin’s wartime leadership; the effectiveness of Khrushchev’s de-Stalinisation programme; and the reasons for the breakup of the USSR. The series will be available to download as a podcast at PodOMatic, to subscribe to via iTunes, or as individual episodes here at www.andallthat.co.uk/meetthehistorians
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Episode 5 - Meet the Historians - John Keep - Brezhnev
May 18, 2014 00:00 - 35 minutes - 48.9 MBThe period of Soviet history between Nikita Khrushchev’s fall from power in 1964, and the arrival of Mikhail Gorbachev as premier in 1985, has often been seen as a period of economic, social and political stagnation in the USSR. For the vast majority of this twenty year time frame, the USSR was governed by one man, Leonid Brezhnev. As such, the Brezhnev era has earned a reputation for being a flat-line in the development of the socialist experiment. However, this view is far from uni...
Episode 4 - Meet the Historians - Martin McCauley - Historical Methods
May 04, 2014 00:00 - 28 minutes - 40.3 MBToday’s episode is the second of a two part programme with Dr Martin McCauley, formerly a senior lecturer in Russian and European history at the University of London. Dr McCauley has a long standing interest in the Soviet Union, having conducted research there in the late 1950s. He is the author of a wide range of books on the Soviet Union, including The Khruschev Era, and the excellent, Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union. In this programme I discuss the issues of historical approac...
Episode 3 - Meet the Historians - Martin McCauley - Soviet History
April 20, 2014 00:00 - 32 minutes - 47 MBToday’s episode is the first of a two part programme with Dr Martin McCauley, formerly a senior lecturer in Russian and European history at the University of London. Dr McCauley has a long standing interest in the Soviet Union, having conducted research there in the late 1950s. He is the author of a wide range of books on the Soviet Union, including The Khruschev Era, and the excellent, Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union. This first programme is taken from a lecture given at Guisele...
Episode 2 - Meet the Historians - Peter Kenez - Gorbachev
April 08, 2014 00:00 - 20 minutes - 29.7 MBThe Soviet Union came to an abrupt end in December 1991, with the resignation of Mikhail Gorbachev from his position as President of the USSR, leaving a multitude of affiliated and independent states in its wake. However, the union had been fragmenting for some time, and there is a good deal of historical debate about how far the end of the Soviet Union was inevitable, and the extent to which Gorbachev might be held accountable for its demise. To discuss the impact of Gorbachev, I ...
Episode 1 - Meet the Historians - Bill Taubman - Khrushchev
March 16, 2014 15:11 - 36 minutes - 54.8 MBHello and welcome to andallthat.co.uk’s new podcast series: Meet the Historians. Over the course of this first series I will be talking to a number of historians who have written about the Soviet Union and finding out a bit more about their historical methods and approaches. I will also be exploring their interpretations of key topics such as Stalin’s wartime leadership, the effectiveness of Khrushchev’s de-Stalinisation programme and the reasons for the breakup of the USSR. The seri...