By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 20 September 2023
Remembering Korea: The First “Hot War” of the Cold War
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Tag Archives: Adolf Hitler
The American Crackdown on Nazi Supporters During the Second World War: A “Brown Scare”?
A Flawed Film Brings Attention to the Soviet Terror-Famine in Ukraine
The Soviet Role and (the Lack of) “Justice” At Nuremberg
The Ideology of Nazism
British MP, Soviet Spy: Tom Driberg
Nazism: Origins and the Weimar Context
A Prop of Autocracy and a Nest of Spies: The Russian Orthodox Church
“Socialism With A Human Face” Was Always Impossible
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 21 August 2022
It was on this day in 1968, fifty-four years ago, that the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia, one of its colonies in the “Warsaw Pact”, which had embarked on a program of liberalising reforms. The Czech leadership did not intend to depart from the socialist path, merely to soften its edges—and ran into the brute fact that this was not possible. Continue reading
Russian Influence on the Nazis
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 10 December 2021
Michael Kellogg’s 2005 book, The Russian Roots of Nazism, argues that Russian “White émigrés” exerted financial, political-military, and ideological influences that “contributed extensively to the making of German National Socialism”. As such, argues Kellogg, Nazism “did not develop merely as a peculiarly German phenomenon”, but within an “international radical right milieu”. The book is interesting but deeply flawed, overstating its case by failing to set the facts it gathers in a proper context and for similar reasons misunderstanding where some of the Russian elements under discussion fit within the politics of the revolutionary upheaval after 1917, both within the borders of Russia and in exile in Europe. Continue reading
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