In 1859, Leo Tolstoy opened a school for peasants on his estate Yasnaya Polyana, perhaps the first model of democratic education in the world, but why?

The Country Schoolmaster: Tolstoy as teacher at Yasnaya Polyana

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Paul Robinson is a professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, at the University of Ottawa. He is the author of Russian Conservatism and Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich.

We spoke to Paul about what defines liberalism in the Russian context, why liberalism has historically failed to take root in Russia, and the impact the War in Ukraine may have on Russia’s potential political trajectory.

1869, Ep. 139 with Paul Robinson, author of Russian Liberalism

We examine the prophetic warnings from scholars and bureaucrats that a great-power war in the twentieth century would lead to bloody stalemate, mass destruction, and a wave of revolutions; and we trace how war strategists and generals reacted to the prophets of doom, formulating new war plans, from Russia’s blundering steamroll, to Germany’s precarious and ill-fated Schlieffen plan, to Britain's devious and mercurial scheme of economic warfare.

Suggested further reading: Barbara Tuchman, “The Guns of August”; Nicholas Lambert, “Planning Armageddon”

Nicholas Lambert’s discussion of Britain’s hope of economic warfare, “The Short War Assumption” -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp7jJ-POo90&pp=ygUQbmljaG9sYXMgbGFtYmVydA%3D%3D

Margaret MacMillan’s lecture on war planning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RUFHkal6Jk&pp=ygUbbWFyZ2FyZXQgbWFjbWlsbGFuIHBsYW5uaW5n

Image: Cartoon of the dispute over Alsace-Lorraine as a medieval romance, Puck Magazine, 1898

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Origins of the First World War, pt. 12 -- War Planning & Strategy

This episode features a paper from 2013 by Dr Susan Grant from Liverpool John Moores University. Dr Grant's paper was entitled 'Caring Communists? The Development of Early Soviet Nursing, 1917-1941'.

CHOMI Podcast

The UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland (CHOMI) based in the UCD School of History, is an interdisciplinary research centre dedicated to the study of the medical humanities. Established in 2006, the Centre seeks to promote the study of the social and cultural history of medicine. Its research and other activities are supported by a range of funding bodies. 

This podcast series features recordings of academic papers on the history of medicine and medical humanities which were given at CHOMI events in University College Dublin, and other venues in Ireland.

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Susan Grant - Caring Communists? The Development of Early Soviet Nursing, 1917-1941

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That's right, folks... Anna's talking about the Russian Tsars again. It's time to learn about Ivan the Terrible, boy king who made his own little kingdom within a kingdom for the sole purpose of bullying the people who were mean to him.

Ivan the Terrible

History lectures by Samuel Biagetti, a historian (and antique dealer) with a Phd in early American history; my dissertation was on Freemasonry in the 1700s. I focus on the historical myths and distortions, from "the Middle Ages" to "Race," that people use to rationalize the world in which we live.   More info at www.historiansplaining.com

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History Hub. is based at the School of History, University College Dublin, Ireland. Our ambition is to make the most recent academic research available on-line to everyone who loves history. 

Our podcasts feature historians talking about a whole range of subjects from medieval to modern history, both Irish and international. Our From the Archives section showcases original historical documents held in the Archive at UCD. We also have a History and Policy section where historians contribute to current policy debates.

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