FALL OF USSR: Part 3 - Athens vs. Sparta
Two institutions, the press and the military, may well determine the fate of the USSR on the night of August 19th, 1991. The Emergency Committee decides, it's time to explain themselves on TV. A repor...
13 Helmi 20231h 9min
FALL OF USSR: Part 2 - The Steam Bath of History
Yeltzin has stood on a tank, but few have seen it. Crowds shift from the traditional protest places to a new one. They bring heavy metal. What on Zemlya is happening? It all starts in a steam bath. So...
8 Helmi 202345min
FALL OF USSR: Part 1: Wake Up, Cassandra!
Soviet citizens wake up to tanks outside their windows in 1991. Media is censored. The President is detained. Another president escapes, maybe just escapes... A third President is powerless. Is this t...
6 Helmi 20231h 6min
"WRONG FOREVER ON THE THRONE!" - William Jennings Bryan and the Democratic Party in His Later Years
The Democratic Party had a problem in the nineteen teens and twenties. What to do with a candidate that could stir up crowds but not enough electoral votes? Though pleased to nominate him in 1896 and ...
18 Tammi 202352min
LEAP TO FREEDOM: Hans Konrad Schumann's Story
One three-second period changed the life of an East German soldier. Stories of freedom and oppression feature heavily on this hodge-podcast episode, the Berlin Wall, the Uruguay dictatorship of the 70...
13 Joulu 202254min
SOCCER and Repression: The 1978 World Cup in Argentina
As the world attention focuses on a soccer game, behind the surface is a disturbingly hidden suppression of a previously strong democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoi...
2 Joulu 202248min
Close Encounters of the CONGRESS KIND: The (Relatively Few) Times When the House Was Close Between the Parties
The average difference between the two major parties in the House of Representatives at any time in American history is sixty. That being said, there are a few times where one, two or nine seats separ...
28 Marras 202249min
SOMETHING HAPPENED: Eugene McCarthy's 1968 Primary Run
The race for the Democratic Nomination in 1968 a complicated one, as one candidate would drop out and another die tragically. But for a while, with other candidates choosing not to enter primaries, th...
31 Loka 202239min
