Reflecting History

Reflecting History

Author: Reflecting History Language: English Episodes: 182
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Reflecting History is an educational history podcast that explores significant historical events and themes without losing track of the ordinary people involved. Covering a wide variety of topics, it explores the connection between history, psychology, and philosophy.
Episodes
Episode 51: The Cultural Revolution Part VII-Mobilizing for War [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 37:54
In the 1970's Red Guards and "undesirables" were forced to toil away in rural China working at re-education camps or doing manual labor in the people's communes. The ordinary people of China continued to suffer and found…
Episode 50: The Cultural Revolution Part VI-The Army Intervenes [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 24:33
The Cultural Revolution began as a campaign against bad class elements, but spiraled out of control as counter-revolutions emerged throughout the country between rebel groups and the local party establishments. As the ch…
Episode 49: The Cultural Revolution Part V-The Hidden Victims [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 16:30
By 1967, China was engulfed in the chaos of the Cultural Revolution. But the violence of the counter-revolutions and counter-counter-revolutions was not the only source of misery for ordinary people in China. As fear spr…
Episode 48: The Cultural Revolution Part IV-Red August [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 29:26
By the end of August in 1966, it was clear that the Cultural Revolution was going to be a unique historical period of violence and upheaval. Violence and brutality were becoming routine, symptoms of the incredibly modern…
Episode 47: The Cultural Revolution Part III-A Culture of Paranoia [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 20:48
During the first month of the Cultural Revolution Mao Zedong unleashed a whirlwind of chaos and confusion in China. Mao mobilized students as "Red Guards"- one part student group, one part paramilitary group- to terroriz…
Episode 46: The Cultural Revolution Part II-Nine Fingers to One [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 29:05
After the deaths of tens of millions of people during the Great Leap Forward, Mao Zedong had to re-establish control over the Communist Party in China. Through a process of political maneuvering and ruthless policy makin…
Episode 45: The Cultural Revolution Part I-No Half Measures [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 21:21
The Cultural Revolution in China lasted roughly from 1966-1976. But the cultural disintegration and scars left from Mao Zedong's final campaign of terror and violence will last for generations to come. This is Part I in…
Episode 44: Red Scarf Girl Part II-Party vs. Family [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 29:55
As Ji-Li Jiang describes in "Red Scarf Girl," the Cultural Revolution became more sinister over time and the psychological pressure on Ji-Li to conform became greater. When the humiliations, beatings, and deaths started…
Episode 43: Red Scarf Girl Part I-Destroying the Four Olds [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 31:35
Kids often get overlooked in traditional historical narratives. But in China around 1966, the communist leader Mao Zedong realized that he could weaponize the youth of China to achieve his political goals. The result was…

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