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Russel Tarr compares and contrasts the rise to power of two Communist leaders.

Russell Tarr explains how the Bolsheviks established their grip on Russia after the 1917 Revolution, and at what cost.

Reforms to divorce law inevitably prompt moral panic as they did in Victorian England.

Were the fifties a dull decade? Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s by Virginia Nicholson has the answer.