Russell Haggar
Site Owner
Topics in this Section
Section 2- The USSR and Russia
Section 2 - The Middle East
Section 2 - China
Section 2 - The History of Ireland
Section 2 - The Cold War [24 part series]
The USSR and Russia
Tsars and Revolutions May 2014
Lenin and the Russian Revolution
Stalin and the Man of Steel ;Mainly Stalin in the Second World War
Trotsky: Rise and Fall of Revolutionary
The Cold War [25 part series] December 2016
Mikhail Gorbachev [lecture by William Taubman]
Mikhail Gorbachev and the end of the Cold War
The Rise and Fall of Gorbachev December 2016
Gorbachev :One; Two; Three; Four December 2016
Mikhail Gorbachev December 2016
Series of podcasts on Stain, Gorbachev, Yeltsin
Vladimir Putin's Rise to Power December 2016
The Rise of Vladimir Putin One Two
Vladimir Putin 1 [BBC] NEW December 2016
Click here and here and here for the Ukraine Conflict
Putin, Russia and the West [4 hours]
The Middle East
Birth of Israel: Birth of a Nation
The 50 Years War : Israel and the Arabs: Part One; Part Two
The Truth on Israel- Palestine Conflict
Iran and the West: The Man who changed the world: One; Two; Three
BBC News Country Profiles [See Middle East]
Libya ; The Rise and Fall of Gaddafi
China
The History of Ireland
Ireland: A Television History [13 Parts : presented by Robert Kee]
The Troubles: A Secret History
The Cold War [24 part series]
Further Topics
Section 1 - Aspects of Politics: Theory and Practice
Section 1 - Some Key Historical Topics
Section 3 - The Mass Media [NEW links added March 2014]
Section 3 - Recent Developments in Feminism
Section 3 - Welfare and Inequality
Section 4 - Annual Political Reviews 2015-2019
Section 4 - Conservatives 1979-2020
Section 4 - Labour: 1979-2020
Section 4 - Liberal Democrats
Section 4 - The Financial Crisis
Section 4- British Government Institutions
Section 5 - USA Presidents from J. F. Kennedy to Barak Obama
Section 5 - The USA In the Vietnam War 1962 -1975
Section 5 - Recent Presidential Elections
Section 5 - The US Supreme Court