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🔑Keys to History

The Death of Stalin. Interview with Sheila Fitzpatrick
Top historian of USSR and Russia on her new book
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Linda Jaivin on China's Cultural Revolution
And some programs to learn from history coming soon
Can Trump deliver peace with Russia for the West?
Russia Expert Richard Sakwa assesses the prospects | Early Access Bonus
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Post-1945 World | The Real History Guide
The post-1945 world did not begin in a well-ordered rulebook.
How to learn from history and fiction...
...through a slow read of Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob.
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History’s Mild Redemptive Power
What are the ethical reasons to read history and emotional drives to write its stories?
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Korea Crisis: Deep causes of the real crisis of Korea and US power
Special Video Interview with Korea expert, KJ Noh
Before the World Changed: Reading Tagore's Prescient 1941 Essay
Rabindranath Tagore, Crisis in Civilization, audio reading
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Will Trump end the American-led post-war world order?
The post-1945 world is coming to an end. Will Trump hammer the final nails in the coffin of the American-led post-war world order? What can we learn…
John Darwin After Tamerlane and the Post-1945 World
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Imagine a world free of nations
Can we imagine a more peaceful world of dialogue between peoples, freed from the narrow identities of nations and globalisation?
How the post-1945 world order began in disorder
The prelude to our post-1945 world order was a violent world crisis between 1910 and 1945.
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