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The Russian Terrorist-Revolutionary Movement: 1866 – 1876

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 November 2025

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Alexander Herzen, Alexander II, Alfred Talandier, Anabaptism, Anabaptists, anarchism, Anna Geifman, Übermensch, Bakuninism, barin, Battle of Frankenhausen, Beznachalie Group, Bidbei, Bolsheviks, capitalism, Chigirin affair, Christianity, Communism, constitutionalism, DDR, Decembrist Revolt, Demons, Dmitry Karakozov, Dmitry Pisarev, East Germany, Farmers’ War, First International, French Revolution, Friedrich Engels, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, GDR, German Democratic Republic, Germany, Going to the People, Iakov Stefanovich, ideology, industrialisation, Ishutin Society, Ivan Gavrilovich Pryzhov, Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov, Jacobinism, Joseph Stalin, Karl Marx, Kolokol, konspiratsiya, Leninism, Mark Natanson, Marxism, Marxism-Leninism, Mikhail Bakunin, Mikhail Pokrovsky, monarchy, morality, Nabat, Narodism, Narodnaya Rasprava, Narodnaya Volya, Narodnik, Narodovoltsy, Nechayevism, Nechayevshchina, Nikolai Ishutin, Nikolai Mezentsov, Nikolai Romanov, Nikolai Tchaikovsky, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Nikolay Ogarev, obshchina, Osip Aptekman, Paris Commune, Pavel Pestel, Peasants’ War, People’s Retribution, People’s Summary Justice, Peter Tkachev, propaganda, Pyotr Lavrov, Pyotr Shuvalov, Pyotr Stolypin, Pyotr Tkachev, Pyotr Tkachov, Pyotr Tkachyov, Pyotr Zaichnevsky, Raskol, Reformation, Romanovs, Russia, Russian intelligentsia, Russian Jacobins, Russian Orthodox Church, Schism, secret police, serfdom, Sergei Nechaev, Sergey Kravchinsky, Sergey Nechaev, Sergey Nechayev, Siberia, socialism, Soviet Union, Stepniak, Tchaikovskist, terrorism, terrorist-revolutionaries, The Possessed, The Revolutionary Catechism, The Tocsin, Third Section, Thomas Muntzer, Tibor Szamuely, Tkachovism, Tsardom, Tsarism, USSR, utilitarianism, utopia, utopianism, Varfolomey Zaytsev, Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich, Vladimir Lenin, Vperyod, Werner Tübke, What is to Be Done?, Yezhovshchina, Young Russia on November 28, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

“The Revolutionary Catechism”, by Sergey Nechayev

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 23 November 2025

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This entry was posted in History, Russia, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged anarchism, assassination, Catechism of a Revolutionary, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jacobinism, Jacobins, Katekhizis revolutsionera, Mikhail Bakunin, Narodism, Narodnik, Nihilism, Nihilists, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, revolution, Russian terrorist-revolutionaries, Sergei Nechaev, Sergei Nechayev, Sergey Nechaev, Sergey Nechayev, terrorism, terrorist-revolutionaries, The People, The Revolutionary Catechism, Tsar, volk on November 23, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

A Microcosm of Why There’s No Israeli-Palestinian Peace

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 17 November 2025

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This entry was posted in History, Israel and tagged Abu Iyad, Antisemitism, Ariel Sharon, Benjamin Netanyahu, Benny Morris, Bill Clinton, Camp David, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Farouk Kaddoumi, Faruq al-Qaddumi, Gaza, ideology, Israel, Jerusalem, Jewish State, Jews, KGB, Oslo Peace Process, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Palestinian National Charter, Palestinian National Council, Palestinian National Covenant, Palestinian State, Phased Program, PLO, PLO Charter, PNC, rejectionism, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Salah Khalaf, Six-Day War, Soviet Union, suicide bombing, Temple Mount, Ten Point Program, terrorism, Tony Blair, United States, West Bank, Yasser Arafat, Zionism on November 18, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Maxim Gorky and Whitewashing Soviet Crimes

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 15 November 2025

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Adolf Hitler, Alexander Kerensky, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, Bolshevik Party, Bolsheviks, capitalism, Cheka, Chekists, Christianity, Communism, enemy of the people, Ernst Röhm, fascism, First World War, Gabriel Konstantinovich, Genrikh Yagoda, Germany, Great Terror, GULAG, Holodomor, Joseph Goebbels, Joseph Stalin, Kazakhstan, Kornilov Affair, Lavr Kornilov, Letopis, Mark Twain, Marxism, Maxim Gorky, National Socialism, Nazi Party, Nazis, Nazism, Nicholas II, Night of the Long Knives, Nikolai Bukharin, NKVD, NSDAP, Okhrana, Okhranka, Potemkin tour, Povolzhye famine, propaganda, Pyotr Kryuchkov, RSDLP, Russia, Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, Sergei Kirov, show trials, socialism, Socialist Realism, Socialist Revolutionaries, Solovki Camp, Soviet New Man, Soviet Revolution, Soviet Union, Stormtroopers, Sturmabteilung, terrorist-revolutionaries, The Trial of the Twenty-One, Tiberius, Tsar, Ukraine, Union of Soviet Writers, Vladimir Lenin, Volga famine, Weimar Republic, Yezhovshchina, zeks on November 16, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Can Syria’s Future Escape Ahmad al-Shara’s Past?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 13 November 2025

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This entry was posted in Syria and tagged Abdul Jashari, Abdulaziz Hudaberdi, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Abu Qatada al-Albani, Afghanistan, Ahmad al-Shara, Ahmad al-Sharaa, al-Qaeda, Alawi massacres, Alawis, Alawites, Alija Izetbegović, Antisemitism, Bashar al-Asad, Bosnia, Brad Cooper, Caesar Act, Caesar sanctions, CENTCOM, China, David Petraus, Donald Trump, Druze, foreign fighters, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, Hezbollah, Hizballah, HTS, ideology, Iran, Iranian Revolution, IRGC, ISIS, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamism, Israel, Jewish State, Jihadi-Salafism, jihadism, jihadists, Kevin Lambert, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Kurds, Lebanon, media, Palestinians, PKK, propaganda, public relations, Rabbi Yosef Hamra, Raed Fares, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, repression, Salafi-jihadism, Sanctions, sectarianism, SNA, SOCOM, Specially Designated Global Terrorist, Syria, Syrian National Army, Taliban, terrorism, Thomas Barrack, TIP, torture, Turkey, Turkistan Islamic Party, United Nations, United States Central Command, Uyghurs, Xhemati Alban, Xinjiang, Zahid on November 13, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Tolkien, the Second World War, and Fighting Evil Without Becoming Evil

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 8 November 2025

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged area bombing, Arthur Harris, Beowulf, Bomber Harris, Christianity, Christopher Tolkien, Communism, First World War, Germany, Great War, J.R.R. Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Nazis, Operation GOMORRAH, Roman Catholic Church, Second World War, Soviet Union, Soviets, strategic bombing, The Blitz, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings on November 8, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

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