John Connelly explores the history of Yugoslavia, from its formation to collapse| HistoryExtra
US president Joe Biden has accused Russian forces of committing acts of “genocide” in Ukraine. Here, historian Donald Bloxham explains the meaning of the term and asks what we can learn from genocides in Rwanda, Bosnia, Cambodia and beyond. He also considers why the international community has failed to halt mass atrocities in all but a few cases…| HistoryExtra
Today, the Nazi persecution of Jewish people is widely viewed through the prism of the death camps: places such as Treblinka, Sobibor and Auschwitz. Yet before Auschwitz was even conceived as a centre of mass murder, more than a million people had been killed across eastern Europe. This is the story of the early stages of the Holocaust, when a campaign of appalling abuse and brutality became an explicit policy of annihilation.| HistoryExtra
What's in the current issue of BBC History Magazine? What's in the next issue of BBC History Magazine?| HistoryExtra