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The History Faculty - University lectures for secondary schools
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Stalin's rise to power, Dr James Harris [1]
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Mao Zedong on guerrilla warfare.
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'Under [Mao's] iron-fist rule, dancing was not just a pastime but a mandatory display of one’s undying love for the Great Helmsman. His loyalty dance, or zhongzi wu (忠字舞) in Mandarin, was a daily fixture of life in the late 1960s, just as the political strife of the Cultural Revolution started heating up and right before the blood of millions started flowing.'
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Mark Steel Lectures - Karl Marx. First broadcast November 2003
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IB History Command terms as cards. They could be used by students in class for card based activities or as part of a display. Definitions taken from the IB History Guide 2010. Downloadable PDF file...
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A simple explanation of IB history command terms from alleycathistory.com
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What is a dictator, or an authoritarian? I’ll bet you think you know. But perhaps you don’t. Sure, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong were dictators. So were Saddam Hussein and both Hafez and Bashar al Assad. But in many cases the situation is not that simple and stark. In many cases the reality — and the morality — of the situation is far more complex. Via jean lievens
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Looking back, how could mass murderers such as Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin and Idi Amin have risen to the top of political power? How could populations whose ancestors had fought for their right to vote, use their precious suffrage to allow such evil men to govern them? Brogan Campbell on the cult of personality.
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In 1931, the communists established the Soviet Republic of China in the mountainous area of Jiangxi province. Three years later, surrounded and harassed by Kuomintang forces led by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, the communist leaders decided to mobilise the Red Army and take flight, thus beginning a journey that would change the fate of the Communist Party of China.
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An infographic of the Long March from the South China Morning Post.
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A MERE 18 years after the death of Mao Zedong, it was possible for a notable Sinologist to give his book on Chinese reforms the title of “Burying Mao”. And who was to quibble?
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A short piece from the Economist on Mao's legacy. 'A mere 18 years after the death of Mao Zedong, it was possible for a notable Sinologist to give his book on Chinese reforms the title of “Burying Mao”. And who was to quibble?'
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An online companion to the book, The Nanjing Atrocities: Crimes of War includes a rich multimedia collection of maps, videos, timelines, and teaching strategies that place the Nanjing Atrocities within the larger context of World War II in East Asia.
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'Japanese people often fail to understand why neighbouring countries harbour a grudge over events that happened in the 1930s and 40s. The reason, in many cases, is that they barely learned any 20th Century history.' A short piece by Mariko Oi on the history teaching in Japanese schools.
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Despite the pain, millions of Chinese women stood firm in their devotion to the tradition
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'Though utterly rejected in China now—the last shoe factory making lotus shoes closed in 1999—it survived for a thousand years in part because of women’s emotional investment in the practice.'
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'When the rural communes were set up during the Great Leap Forward (1958), health care was organized in health stations at the commune level. The people employed by these stations were part-peasant, part-doctor. As they wore no shoes most of the time, they became known as barefoot doctors.'
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'Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the "excessive demonization" of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin "is one means of attacking the Soviet Union and Russia".'
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'Third-Front" (san xian) construction was a strategic policy in the modern history of China. In the early 1960s, in the face of a complicated international situation, to preserve the nation’s strength Chairman Mao Zedong decided to relocate many heavy industries and military factories to the southwestern and northwestern hinterland areas. This extensive industrial move was historically known as the “Third-Front Construction".'
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A battle is raging in the realm of historiography
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'Xi Jinping, China’s president, is waging war against “historical nihilism”, a peril as arcane-sounding as it is, to his mind, grave. As a state news agency recently warned, there is a “seething undercurrent” of it in China. Failure to stamp it out, officials say, could lead to Soviet-style collapse.'
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A page with links to a huge range of primary sources. Mainly American, I admit, but not exclusively.
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Is a future without dictatorships realistic? Rachel Nuwer investigates.
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'Ending dictatorship once and for all would seem a worthwhile goal. But is that likely? What allows a dictator to thrive, and how might things change in the future for these leaders?'
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A stand-alone simulation from activehistory.co.uk to help students compare and contrast how single-party state rulers maintained power.
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'More than 70 years after its conclusion, China's bitter and lengthy "War Against Japanese Aggression" just got six years longer. At the beginning of the upcoming Spring semester, the "Eight-year Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression" will become the "14-year Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression" in textbooks across the country, according to the Ministry of Education.'
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People's Century episode on Mao's China. An excellent introduction; don't fret too much about 16 seconds of glamrock at the beginning!
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Prof. Rana Mitter gives a brief introduction to his book on China's war with Japan, 1937-45.
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'In this insight, Rana Mitter attempts to re-examine as many aspects as possible of China’s experience of the highly destructive, eight-year war with Japan. Mitter discusses the major leaders (Chiang Kaishek, Mao Zedong and Wang Jingwei) and about the ordinary people who became caught up in terrible times.'
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FRANK DIKÖTTER, the author of “The Tragedy of Liberation”, says the golden age of China’s liberation was really a period of broken promises, systematic...
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This interview with Dikotter makes clear his view that violence 'was the revolution of 1949' and it continued to be so right through to the man-made disaster of the Great Leap Forward. A number of critical reviews of 'The Tragedy of Liberation' take a more equivocal view of this period.
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In August 1945, Mao Zedong flew from his mountain redoubt in Yan’an to Chongqing, the headquarters of Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists and China’s sweltering wartime capital.
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The last meeting between leaders of the Chinese Communists and the Nationalists in August 1945.
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