It’s a bit of a fools errand trying to compare disasters, discoveries and empires from different time-periods. How can one properly make comparisons between the Roman Empire and the British Empire for example? The Mongol Empire and the French Empire? Just when you think you have weighed up all the factors then you realise you… Continue reading Stalin Vs Hitler: A comparison – who was worst?
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Russia in WW1
In 1914, Russia was badly prepared for a serious war having just nine years earlier been defeated in a war with against a tiny and a definitely non-European power in Japan. There was a revolution in 1905 that had shaken the Russian Empite to its core and the Tsar was forced to concede civil rights… Continue reading Russia in WW1
The Russian Revolution
Today marks the centeneary of the famous October or Russian Revolution of 1917 which was one of the most explosive political events of the twentieth century. The violent revolution marked the end of the Romanov dynasty and centuries of Russian Imperial rule. During the Russian Revolution, the Bolsheviks, led by leftist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, seized… Continue reading The Russian Revolution
The death of the Aral Sea
Once the fourth largest inland body of water in the world and half the size of England has over the last few decades almost totally disappeared. The Aral Sea sits in the middle of the Kyzylkum Desert fed by the two rivers, the Syr Darya and Amu Darya. It wasn’t really a sea but a… Continue reading The death of the Aral Sea
Stephen Liddell 