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' - HISTORY TEACHING REVIEW I S.A.T.H. ------ YEARBOOK VOLUME20 2006 THE YEARBOOK OF THE SCOTTISH ASSOCIATIO OF TEACHERS OF HISTORY HISTORY TEACHING REVIEW YEARBOOK EDITOR: ANDREW HUNT VOLUME20 2006 Biographical Notes on the Contributors Editorial The ProslaveryStruggle for Missouri, 1849-61 Dr Wayne Johnson York St John University College New Perspectives on Japanese Society and the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5 Dr Naoko Shimazu Birkbeck College, University of London The British People and the Evolution of Democracy. Professor Kevin Jefferys University of Plymouth The Russian Revolution: EH Carr, Soviet and Post-Soviet Historians Professor Paul Dukes University of Aberdeen The Russian Revolution: Beginnings, Ends and Dr Ronald Kowalski Perspectives on the Soviet Thermidor University College, Worcester 'Banal Evil' and 'Cogs in the Machine'. Exploring the Dr Martyn Housden Relationship between Atrocity, Bureaucracy and Modernity University of Bradford The Historiography of the Home Front in World WarTwo Britain Dr Sally Sokoloff University College, Northampton The British Post-War Consensus: A Concept for all Seasons? Dr David Martin University of Sheffield Richard Nixon and the Origins of AffirmativeAction Dr Kevin Yuill University of Sunderland MikhailGorbachev and the Collapse of the Soviet Union Dr Steven Morewood University of Birmingham Using Historyto Understand ContemporaryConflicts Professor Philip Sabin Kings College, University of London Reviews and Perspectives H.T.R.YEAR BOOK is the Journalof the Scottish Association of Teachers of History. Contributions,editorial correspondenceand books for review should be sent to the Editor, Andrew Hunt, 35 CarrongroveAvenue, Carron, Falkirk FK.2 8NG. The publication of anarticle in H.T.R. YearBook doesnot imply S.A. T.H. 's official approval of the opinions expressed therein. Cover: Among London Searchlights by Nevinson, Christopher RichardWynne ( 1889-1946), with thanks to the Bridgeman Art Library, London. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS DR WAYNEJ. JOHNSON is Senior Lecturer in History and AmericanStudies at York St. JohnUniversity College. He is the author of several articleson nineteenth centuryBritish andAmerican religious history,as well as proslavery thought inthe ante-helium UnitedStates. He is continuing research into the pro-slavery strugglefor Missouri, as well as the religious defence of slavery in America prior to the Civil War DR NAOKO SlllMAZU is Senior Lecturer in Japanese History at the Schoolof History,Classics and Archaeology, BirkbeckCollege, Universityof London, andFellow of the Royal HistoricalSociety. She is currentlycompleting Japanese Society at War: Death, Memory and the Russo-Japanese War (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). Her other publications include Japan, Race and Equality: TheRacial EqualityProposal of I 919 (Routledge, I 998), Nationalismsin Japan (Routledge, forthcoming2006) aseditor, "'Love thy Enemy": Japanese Perceptionsof Russia,' in John Steinberg et al, eds, TheRusso-Japanese War in Global Perspective (E.J.Brill, 2005), 'Popular Representations of the Past: The Case of Postwar Japan,' Journalof ContemporaryHistory 38: I (January2003), and 'The Myth of the PatrioticSoldier: Japanese Attitudes towards Death in the Russo-Japanese War', War and Society 19:2 (October 2001 ). KEVIN JEFFERYSis Professor of Contemporary History at Plymouth University. His main research interests are in twentieth-century social and political history in Britain, and hispublications include TheChurchill Coalition and Wartime Politics 1940-45 (Manchester, 1991), Anthony Crosland: A New Biography (London, 1999) and Finest & DarkestHours. TheDecisive Events in British Politics fromChurchill to Blair (London, 2002). PROFESSOR PAUL DUKES joined the History Departmentof the Universityof Aberdeen in 1964,and has remained active as Emeritus Professor since he retired in 1999, when he also became FRSE. His most recent books are Paths to a New Europe: FromPremodern to Postmodern Times, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004); and The USA in the Making of the USSR: The WashingtonConference, 1921-1922 and 'Uninvited Russia•, (Routledge CUIZon,2004). Two further works, TheRise and Fall of the Big Three: On the Role of Individuals in the Second World War and (in collaboration with Graeme Herd and Jarmo Kotilaine) Stuarts and Romanovs: The Rise and Fall of a Special Relationship, are awaiting publication. DR RONALDKOWALSKI is Senior Lecturerin Historyat the UniversityofWorcester. His published works include books on the Russian Revolution (a detailed study of the Left Communist Opposition and a more general source based text, TheRussian Revolution 1917-1921). His book on European Communism (Palgrave Macmillan) was to be published in April 2006. He is currently workingon a study of Totalitarianism DR MARTYN HOUSDEN is Reader in ModernHistory at the University of Bradford. His books include Resistance and Conformity in the Third Reich (Routledge, 1997) and Hitler. Study of a Revolutionary? (Routledge, 2000). Currently he is researching the life of Ewald Ammende, General Secretary of the Congress of European National Minorities, 1925-36. DR SALLYSOKOLOFF is Principal Lecturer in History at the University of Northampton. She has published on military and gender aspects ofWorld War Two Britain and on localand oral historyin Historyjournals. She is currently researching Military Exemption Tribunals in World War One, and also Northamptonshirehistory. DR DAVID MARTIN teaches in the History Department at the University of Sheffield. Co-author of Labour in British Society 1830-1914 (2000) and co-editor of Ideology and the Labour Movement (1979), he also contributed to the first ten volumes of the Dictionary of Labour Biography (1972-2000). He wrote sketches of Tony Benn, Roy Hattersley and other Labour Party figuresfor The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-CenturyBritish Politics (2002). An essay on the Parliamentary Labour Party in 1906 is due to appear in Men WhoMade Labour, edited by Alan Haworth and Dianne Hayter (Routledge, 2006). DR KEVIN YUILL is Senior Lecturer in AmericanStudies at the University of Sunderland. He has published various articles, including on the 1966 White House Conference on Civil Rights in the Historical Journal. His forthcoming bookis entitled RichardNixon and the Riseof Affinnative Action: ThePursuit of Racial Equalityin an Era of Limits and will be published as part of the American Intellectual Culture Series by Rowman and Littlefieldin August 2006. DR STEVEN MOREWOODis Lecturer in InternationalHistory in the School of Historical Studies at the University of Birmingham. He is the co-author (with Derek Aldcroft) of Economic Change in Eastern Europe since 1918 (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1995) and sole author of 'Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century' in M.J.Oliver ed. Essays in nme and Space (Aldershot:Ashgate, 2003) and 'The demise of the command economies in the Soviet Union and its outer empire' in D.H.Aldcroftand M.J.Oliver eds. Economic Disasters of the Twentieth Century(Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, forthcoming). PIIlLIPSABIN is Professor of Strategic Studies at King's College London's War Studies Department. He studies the strategyand tacticsof warfare in all periods, with particularemphasis on the ancientworld and the Second World War. His specialism is the modelling of military engagements using conflictsimulation techniques. He also has close links with the British armed services, and regularly writes and lectures on modem security issues. He co-edited the forthcomingCambridge Historyof Greekand Roman Wa,fare. 2 Editorial ANDREWHUNT It is certainly no hardship on my part, on behalf of SATH, to thank all the contributors - both article writers and reviewers - for the contributions they have made to this issue of the Year Book. As usual, apparently by some sort of almost immaculate conception, it has come together at the right time, in the right format, with almost nothing apart from a little administrative effort on my part. I am always amazed that something so solid, comprehensive, challenging and useful can be assembled so readily each year, simply due to the thoughtfulness and good will of so many of our academic colleagues. As usual they are co-operative, punctual and anxious to deliver what will be most helpfulto our teaching coursesor most stimulating to our minds.My sincere thanksto them all. With a total of l l articles in this bumper 2006 edition, that makes it second only to 1992 in size, and one bigger than 2000. The continuing quality ofthe articles within it is its own best advert when, each year, I come round to persuading more people to contribute to the followingyear's issue. This year, we see two authors who have written for the Year Book before and happily re-offered their services. Then, there is one other contributor, who made a contribution to the 1979 issue ofSATH's History Teaching Review, which was a previous incarnationof the Year Book, when SATH was much younger. It lets you both appreciate SATH's longevity as an organisation, and also the sheer staying power that historians both have and show when it comes to sticking up for their subject and airing their expertise in their own field. There may be the murmuringsin the air about 'History in danger' but they'll have to watch out forus 'old guard' first. This is probably a good place to remind all readers that SATH has now got a fullyfunctioning web site to help furtherspread the word about what SATH does as a History organisation. SATH members and other interested parties