The Second German Reich: German Industrialization and the Romantic-Nationalist Tradition Matthew Raphael Johnson German industrialization was rapid, successful and, importantly, strongly controlled by the state. The German situation in the second half of the 19th century was that of a strong ethnic unity that had not yet achieved political or economic unity. Beginning with the…
The Punic Wars and the Development of Rome Matthew Raphael Johnson Senior Researcher The Barnes Review The Punic Wars were a clash of two growing societies and their aspirations for supremacy of Mediterranean. The two polities was the growing Roman republic and the African commercial city of Carthage. The Punic Wars were not just…
In the last issue, I argued that the Mongols did not invade Russia. It is normally the case that “Mongol” and “Tartar” are used simultaneously. If the Mongols and Tartars were not from Mongolia, then who were they? In 1817 Christian Kruse published his Atlas of European history. There, or the first time, the term “Mongol-Tartar”…
The Bolshevik empire was forged by Jews on both sides of the Atlantic. Therefore, understanding the history of Russo-Jewish relations is of immense importance in making sense of the 20th century. In this broadcast, TBR’s own Matthew Raphael Johnson speaks with Andrew Carrington Hitchcock on just this question. http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-140803/TS-1097758.mp3 It is almost impossibly to find…
TBR Senior researcher Matthew Raphael Johnson again challenges conventional wisdom on the Russian empire. In Russia itself, it is rare to find textbooks or historians who believe that the Mongols occupied Russia in the high middle ages. In the US, that has not even begun to penetrate. http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-140803/TS-1102921.mp3 Initially skeptical, Dr. Johnson was slowly convinced by…
John Tiffany, longtime associate, editor and researcher for The Barnes Review, provides an analysis of Mithridates VI, sometimes known as “The Great” who was a warrior against the Roman Senatorial Republic. He was the main opponent of Roman expansion in Greece. http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-140803/TS-1101198.mp3 Long before the nation was said to exist, this monarch and general was a…
NN Neplyuev, who was a Christian and both nationalist and socialist. “Socialism” has been hijacked by Jewish materialists and revolutionaries who care little for society or labor. Socialism had always, prior to Marx, been an idealist and religious entity based on the idea of love. Love is the opposite of self-seeking. Cicero defined natural law…
The story of the “Tsarist pogroms” is a familiar one. Stated in pious terms, the overpaid American history professor will intone that the “Russian Tsar” ordered his “Black Hundreds” to slaughter Jews for “no reason” in the cities of western Russia. https://ia801508.us.archive.org/2/items/TON080216/TON%20080216.mp3 Like all stories of this kind, it is not only false, but utterly…
Slobodan Milosevic was officially exonerated for war crimes at the Hague last week and the story was buried in the New York Times, yet it is one of the most significant events of the last month. Tito’s Yugoslavia was not a Stalinist or Leninist state, it was not a centralized despotism, but a very interesting,…
On July 17, 1918 the royal family of Russia were murdered and today’s podcast was recorded on the 98th anniversary of the crime. Tsar Nicholas is one of the greatest men of the 20th century. His reign was a success on all fronts. Industrial growth was extraordinary. Railroads were being laid throughout that huge country. Iron and steel production increased by about 156% between 1900-1913, while pig iron, or unprocessed iron, increased by almost 100%.