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Making sense of this crazy world

historymadeeasier

I am a student of history, a teacher of history and a writer of history. You could say history is a passion of mine. I have a website for students and I had been mulling around this idea of a podcast for some time. Would people be interested? Would I make it interesting? That’s essentially what was holding me back. But with a new year starting, the craziness still all around us, I thought what the hell – give it a go, John! The primary purpose of the podcast is to use history to help us make a

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All Episodes

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8 Explaining the war in Ukraine - the collapse of the...

Making sense of this crazy world ·

2023/03/19

In this episode in my mini-series that sets out to explain the war in Ukraine, I’m going to jump forward from Stalin’s Russia to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. This was something that was remarkable in a number of ways: its apparent suddenness, its unexpectedness, and, of course, its game-changing, epoch-changing nature. Intro and outro music curtesy of slip.stream: https://slip.stream/tracks/58fb6726-c035-4d10-a8e8-eba70e5164ad

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26:24

7 Explaining the war in Ukraine - Life under Stalin

Making sense of this crazy world ·

2023/03/12

In this episode in my mini-series that sets out to explain the war in Ukraine, my main focus is going to be on the period in which Stalin’s will held sway in Russia, so from 1924 to his death in 1953. And it aint gonna be too pretty. Intro and outro music curtesy of slip.stream: https://slip.stream/tracks/58fb6726-c035-4d10-a8e8-eba70e5164ad

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26:41

6 Explaining the war in Ukraine - The Bolshevik...

Making sense of this crazy world ·

2023/03/05

Lenin had blamed WW1 on imperialism’s greed and in this episode in my mini-series explaining the war in Ukraine, I’m going to look at Lenin and the Bolshevik’s stance on imperialism when a number of the republics, with Ukraine to the fore, sought to assert their independence from the Bolsheviks, and what that might mean to the situation today. Intro and outro music curtesy of slip.stream: https://slip.stream/tracks/58fb6726-c035-4d10-a8e8-eba70e5164ad

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10:47

5 Explaining the war in Ukraine - on the eve of WW1

Making sense of this crazy world ·

2023/02/26

In this episode in my mini-series that aims to explain the war in Ukraine, I’m going to take a look at the state of things at the outbreak of WW1. Intro and outro music curtesy of slip.stream: https://slip.stream/tracks/58fb6726-c035-4d10-a8e8-eba70e5164ad

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18:24

4 Explaining the war in Ukraine - Kievan Rus and the...

Making sense of this crazy world ·

2023/02/19

In this third episode explaining the war in Ukraine, I am going to go back to the origins of both Russia and Ukraine: to a land known as Kievan Rus and, in 15-20 minutes take us through around a thousand years of history! Intro and outro music curtesy of slip.stream: https://slip.stream/tracks/58fb6726-c035-4d10-a8e8-eba70e5164ad

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14:07

3 Explaining the war in Ukraine: The Orange Revolution

Making sense of this crazy world ·

2023/02/12

This episode looks at Ukraine's Orange Revolution of 2004 which should be seen as a watershed, setting the stage for the new Cold War climate that defines today's relations between Russia and the West. Intro and outro music curtesy of slip.stream: https://slip.stream/tracks/58fb6726-c035-4d10-a8e8-eba70e5164ad

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17:45

2 Explaining the war in Ukraine: Putin and the West

Making sense of this crazy world ·

2023/02/04

This episode is the first in a mini series that sets out to explain the war in Ukraine. And we begin by examining the relationship between Vladimir Putin and the West. I think you will see why it is so important. Intro and outro music curtesy of slip.stream: https://slip.stream/tracks/58fb6726-c035-4d10-a8e8-eba70e5164ad ----more----

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1 An introduction to Making Sense of this Crazy World

Making sense of this crazy world ·

2023/01/31

This is an introduction to my new podcast: Making Sense of this Crazy World. In which I use history to help explain what's going on in the world today. Intro and outro music curtesy of slip.stream: https://slip.stream/tracks/58fb6726-c035-4d10-a8e8-eba70e5164ad

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