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Hobsbawm's Age of Extremes – The Golden Age, the Fall of Communism, and the Crisis of Social Democracy

Explaining History by Nick Shepley

May 9, 202629:52Society & Culture

**In this solo episode of the Explaining History Podcast, we return to Eric Hobsbawm's magisterial overview of the 20th century, *Age of Extremes*, to explore the paradoxes that shaped our world – and the crisis that def...

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Hobsbawm's Age of Extremes – The Golden Age, the Fall of Communism, and the Crisis of Social Democracy is an episode from Explaining History by Nick Shepley. **In this solo episode of the Explaining History Podcast, we return to Eric Hobsba...

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Published May 9, 2026, 29:52 long, audio available.