Greetings Podcast Listeners and welcome back to a new episode of History: From One Student to Another.  The Reign of Terror was an 11th-month period characterized by intense violence, mass executions by guillotine, purges of political opposition to the state, and widespread fear and intimidation. In this episode, we’ll look at The Reign of Terror and its successor– the Directory, and the Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This episode will bring an end to a two-parter on the French Revolution......

Greetings Podcast listeners! After a long, unanticipated break, welcome back to a new episode of my Podcast! The upcoming episodes of my Podcast symbolise a new era for the Podcast— I will be shying away from focusing on the Cambridge GCSE and AS/A-Level curriculums as I am now studying at University! Instead, these episodes will look at a wider range of topics and events that have taken place throughout History. The French Revolution was a decisive point in History, often cited as being...

Greetings Podcast Listeners! In this episode of History: From One Student to Another which is re-written, re-produced and recorded as a part of my IGCSE series on Weimar Germany, I will be looking at recovery and prosperity during the ‘Golden Age’ of the Weimar Republic. Content: • Streseman's Role in Recovery / The Dawes Plan • The Locarno Treatires • Cultural Achievements • Remaining Economic and Political Problems • How far did the Weimar Republic recover from 1924 to 1929? If you...

Greetings Podcast Listeners! In this episode of History: From One Student to Another which is re-written, re-produced and recorded as a part of my IGCSE series on Weimar Germany, I will be discussing the early Political and Economic Crises of the new Weimar Republic. Content: • German Revolution of 1918 • The Weimar Constitution • The Spartacist Uprising • The terms of the Treaty of Versailles • The Kapp Putsch • The French Invasion of the Ruhr If you want some more revision...

Greetings Podcast listeners! After a two-month break, welcome back to a new episode of History: From One Student to Another. In this episode, we will be looking at the question: what was the British public's attitude towards War? There are a few key angles we can use to look at this question; the Peace Ballot and attitudes towards the League of Nations, the Spanish Civil War, attitudes towards rearmament policies, and British public opinion. If you want some more revision material, you can...

Greetings Podcast listeners! Welcome back to a new episode of Britain in 1919–1939. In this episode, we will be looking at how the British prepared for the Second World War. After a relatively peaceful 1920s, the prospect of a second world war began to show itself in the 1930s. With conflict spouting from the rules of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, countries tried their best to avoid another costly war. Aside from a policy of non-involvement in the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939,...

Greetings Podcast listeners and welcome back to a new episode of Britain in 1919–1939. In this episode, we will be looking at how society and living standards changed during the interwar period. Over the next couple of months, I will be self-studying Britain, 1919-1939. New episodes will be released every Tuesday! If you want some more revision material, you can use the link below to access much more revision information on my...

The period of time between 1929 and 1939 is sometimes referred to as ‘The Devil’s Decade’. Aside from the rise in extremism that took place during the decade, and the commencement of the Second World War, the beginning of the decade is marred by the Great Depression as the Wall Street Stock Market crashed following the post-war industrial boom of the iron and steel, construction, automobile and retail industries in ‘The Roaring Twenties’. In this episode on Britain from 1929 to 1939, I will...

Greetings Podcast listeners. Welcome to the second episode of my new series of History: From One Student to Another which is covering Theme 4: Britain, 1919–39, of the European option, from the Cambridge A-Level History curriculum. In this episode, I will be looking at the Changing Fortunes of the Conservative, Liberal and Labour Parties along with The General Strike of 1926. Over the next couple of months, I will be self-studying Britain, 1919-1939. New episodes will be released every...

Welcome to a new series of History: From One Student to Another. This series will be covering Theme 4: Britain, 1919–39, of the European option, from the Cambridge A-Level History curriculum. In this first episode of my new series on Britain from 1919 to 1939, essentially inter-war Britain, I will be giving an introduction to post-First World War Britain, under Lloyd George’s Coalition government. Over the next couple of months, I will be self-studying Britain, 1919-1939. New episodes will...

Welcome to the last episode of Stalin’s Russia, from History: From One Student to Another. This episode will be outside of the A-Level curriculum, as we will be looking at the Legacy of Joseph Stalin, and the gist of what took place in the Soviet Union following his death, up until its collapse. I would be interested to know how you compare Stalin and Putin. Do you see any similarities between their rules? Let me know through the links below. If you would like to be kept up-to-date on the...

Greetings Podcast listeners! Welcome to this week’s episode of History: From One Student to Another! In this episode about Stalin’s Russia, we will be looking at the question: “How far was Joseph Stalin a totalitarian ruler?”. The factors which allowed Stalin to gain power Stalin’s political policies over the course of his rule Stalin’s economic policies over the course of his rule Stalin’s social policies over the course of his rule With this episode, I have finished self-studying...

Greetings Podcast Listeners! For the majority of Stalin's rule, Stalin was portrayed as the perfect, all-powerful and all-knowing leader of the greatest country on earth. Welcome to this week’s episode of History: From One Student to Another, during which we shall be looking into Stalin’s cult of personality. We will begin by looking at the origins and development of the cult, before moving on to how the Soviet people responded to Stalin’s cult of personality and the extent to which building...

Greetings Podcast listeners. Welcome back to a new episode of History: From One Student to Another. In this week's episode, we will be examining how Stalin used repression to gain absolute power. Over the next couple of months, I will be self-studying Stalin's Russia. New episodes will be released every Tuesday (and on some Fridays)! If you want some more revision material, you can use the link below to access much more revision information on my...

While the Soviet Union’s leaders and authorities officially condemned nationalism and proclaimed internationalism, including their support of self-determination, in actual truth, many ethnic groups within the Soviet Union were treated horrendously. While the founder of Soviet Russia, Vladimir Lenin, had implemented a policy of korenization, which meant the integration of non-Russian nationalities into the governments of their specific Soviet republics, Stalin doubled down on many of these...

Shortly after he gained control over the party, Stalin embarked on a period of radicalisation of the Soviet foreign policy that aligned with his hardline domestic policies. To convey a sense of emergency for modernising the Soviet Union, Stalin portrayed the Western powers, with France in particular, as violent nations who were seeking to attack and destroy the Soviet nation. Domestically, Stalin eliminated any forms of opposition to his power, replacing those in positions of power with his...

Greetings Podcast listeners! Welcome to History: From One Student to Another and another episode from my series on Stalin’s Russia. In this episode, we will look at the policies and views of Stalin toward women. If you remember from Nazi Germany and Mussolini’s Italy, women were treated as a whole different class to men and had a specific set of ideals put upon them. But in Stalin’s Russia, there were fundamental differences in how he viewed women, as compared with Mussolini and Hitler. In...

Greetings Podcast listeners! Welcome to History: From One Student to Another and another episode from my series on Stalin’s Russia. This is part two of my episodes on The Economic Policies of Stalin’s Russia, during which we shall be taking a look at agriculture. I do apologise that I was unable to get this episode out last Friday, as scheduled. I hope the next episode will be on time. As the episode begins, please subscribe or click follow to be notified when new episodes are...

Greetings Podcast listeners! Welcome to History: From One Student to Another and another episode from my series on Stalin’s Russia. Up until 1928, Stalin and Bukharin presented themselves as the upholders of Lenin’s legacy through his 1921 New Economic Policy, but this had changed by 1928 when Stalin completely cut down the New Economic Policy and took steps which were even more radical than what the Left Opposition had been advocating for. In this episode, I’ll be speaking about the...

Greetings Podcast listeners! Welcome to History: From One Student to Another and another episode from my new series on Stalin’s Russia. In this episode, we will look to address the question, how did Joseph Stalin consolidate his power from 1922 to 1929? As the episode begins, please subscribe or click follow to be notified when new episodes are released! Over the next couple of months, I will be self-studying Stalin's Russia. New episodes will be released every Tuesday and Friday! If...

Greetings Podcast listeners! After a long time, I would like to welcome you back to my Podcast, and to my new series on Stalin’s Russia. This episode will serve as an introduction to Marxism and Leninism. As the episode begins, please subscribe or click follow to be notified when new episodes are released! Over the next couple of months, I will be self-studying Stalin's Russia. New episodes will be released every Tuesday and Friday! If you want some more revision material, you can use...

Come and join me and listen to my Podcast; whether you are a history student, or just like history. Trailer Music by Coma-Media from Pixabay. If you want some more revision material, you can use the link below to access much more revision information on my website: https://www.historyfromonestudenttoanother.com  If you have any suggestions or questions, please fill in this Google Form: https://www.historyfromonestudenttoanother.com/feedback Find out how you can support me...

Greeting Podcast Listeners. In this episode, as an overview of the topic of Hitler’s Germany, we will be looking at a question from a past paper. The Nazis had created a totalitarian state in Germany by 1941 to a large extent. By 1941, the Nazi German government was centralised, with Hitler in a dictatorial position, and the Nazis having one-party control over the government and wider society. Hitler was able to achieve this by implementing one-party rule, repressing opposition with...

Welcome Podcast listeners, to another episode of History: From One Student to Another. In this episode of my series on Hitler’s Germany, we will be looking at different groups of people in Germany so as to gain a wider perspective on the Nazi regime, in order to answer an important question— Did the people of Germany truly support the Nazi regime? Groups of people in Germany: The Military The Upper Class The Middle Class The Working & Peasant Class The Youth Women The...