Monte Cassino and revolutionary Russia

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🗓️ 15 May 2014

⏱️ 48 minutes

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On the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Monte Cassino, Matthew Parker explores one of the Allies' toughest challenges in the Second World War. Meanwhile we speak to Professor Orlando Figes, author of a new book and website about Russia's revolutionary period. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:45.2	was suffering from the same symptoms that shakes, nightmares, sweats,
0:49.7	that they had been treating in the mental ward to their base hospital.
0:53.1	That was Matthew Parker on the impact on soldiers who fought the Battle of Monte Cassino.
0:57.7	The Bolsheviks from the beginning saw their revolution as a long-term task,
1:02.4	and from the 1920s applied themselves furiously to the task of changing human nature.
1:07.0	And that was Orlando Fijis, discussing the Russian Revolutionary period.
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