Month: March 2020

190: 1919 – Africa II

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The ruins of Great Zimbabwe, in modern-day Zimbabwe.

During the late war, Africa had been both a source of soldiers and a theater of conflict. Yet when the war was over, European powers meant to divide up the German colonies among the victors and continue with business as usual in Africa.

Liberals hoped that the new system of mandates would mark a change from the old way of doing things, while the Communists declared Africans oppressed victims of Western capitalism.

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Digya
Composed and performed by Kevin MacLeod; used by arrangement with incompetech.com.
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189: 1919 – Africa I

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The Pan-African flag.

For 500 years, Africa was for Europeans, first, an obstacle to circumnavigate on the way to Asia, and second, a source of slaves. Europeans turned against slavery in a big way in the 19th century, just as new technology was making it possible for Europeans to explore the African interior and enforce their claims upon it.

Europeans took it upon themselves to educate and “civilize” Africans, but two generations later, Africans wanted to know when they would be permitted a say in their own affairs.

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Kumasi Groove
Composed and performed by Kevin MacLeod; used by arrangement with incompetech.com.
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188: 1919 – The U.S.S.R.

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Lenin Mausoleum, just outside the Kremlin on Red Square, Moscow.

With the end of the Civil War, the Communists reorganize Russia into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Lenin introduces the New Economic Policy and the leadership of the Socialist Revolutionary Party are tried and convicted of treason.

During this period, Lenin also suffered three strokes, and died in January 1924.

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“The Sick Doll,” from The Children’s Album.
Composed in 1878 by Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky. Public domain.
Performed by Louis Sauter and used pursuant to a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license. Source.

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187: 1919 – The Caucasus

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Armenian district of Shusha, destroyed in fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan in 1920.

In 1919, independent nations of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia emerged for the first time since the Middle Ages, but they would be annexed by Russia after the Civil War.

Afterward, the Communist government in Moscow continued to face political opposition as it struggled to rebuild the Russian economy.

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Fanfare

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Symphony No. 5 in e minor
Composed in 1888 by Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky. Public domain.
Public domain recording. Source.

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