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The “Whites” in the Russian Civil War Were Not Monarchists

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 12 February 2026

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This entry was posted in History, Russia and tagged 1905 Revolution, Admiral Kolchak, Aleksandr Kolchak, Alexander Kerensky, Alexander Kolchak, Alexey Kaledin, Allies, Antisemitism, Anton Denikin, Armed Forces of South Russia, Ataman, Baltics, Black Army, Black Baron, Bolshevik coup, Bolshevik Revolution, Bolsheviks, Bourbons, Britain, Central Powers, Communism, communists, Constituent Assembly, Constitutional Democrats, Cossacks, Czechoslovak Legion, David Lloyd George, democracy, Dimitry Lehovich, Directory, Dobrarmiya, Dobrovolcheskaya Armiya, Don Cossack Host, Don Cossacks, Don Host, Entente, Estonia, ethnic nationalists, ethno-nationalists, Evan Mawdsley, Finland, Finns, First World War, France, General Alfred Knox, Germany, Great War, Hetman, Ice March, ideology, Imperial Russia, Jews, Kadets, Kazakhstan, Kuban, Lavr Kornilov, liberal democrat, liberalism, liberals, Mensheviks, Mikhail Alekseev, Mikhail Alekseyev, Mikhail Rodzianko, Mitteleuropa, monarchism, monarchists, Napoleon Bonaparte, nationalism, nepredreshenchestvo, Nikolai Iudenich, Nikolai Yudenich, non-predetermination, Northwestern Army, Octobrist Party, Octobrists, oriyentatsiya, patriotism, Pavlo Skoropadsky, Peter Kenez, Peter Krasnov, Peter Wrangel, politics, propaganda, Provisional All-Russian Government, Provisional Government, Provisional Siberian Government, Pyotr Krasnov, Pyotr Wrangel, Randstaatenpolitik, Reds, Republic, republicanism, Richard Pipes, Russia, Russian Civil War, separatists, Siberia, Socialist-Revolutionaries, Sovdepia, SRs, Symon Petliura, terrorism, Tsar Nicholas II, Tsardom, Tsarism, Union of 17 October, Vladimir Lenin, Volunteer Army, White Armies, White Guards, White Movement, Whites, Woodrow Wilson on February 12, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

Martin Luther King and J. Edgar Hoover

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 November 2024

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Alien Registration Act, Andrew Goodman, Baptists, Bayard Rustin, Benjamin Davis, Black Panthers, Bolshevik coup, Bolshevik Revolution, Bolshevism, Brandenburg v. Ohio, Christianity, Christians, civil rights, Clarence Jones, COINTELPRO, Communism, Communist Party, Counterintelligence Program, CPUSA, Ethel Rosenberg, Eugene Dennis, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Francis Xavier Waldron, George Wallace, Great Migration, Great Terror, Gus Hall, Hunter Pitts O’Dell, informants, Intelligence, Internal Security Act, J. Edgar Hoover, Jack Childs, Jack O’Dell, James Chaney, Jesse Jackson, Jewish-Americans, Jews, JFK, Jim Crow, John F. Kennedy, John Seigenthaler, Joseph Stalin, Julius Rosenberg, KGB, KKK, Korean War, Ku Klux Klan, LBJ, Left-wing extremism, Lyndon B. Johnson, MANHATTAN Project, Martin Luther King, Marxism, Marxism-Leninism, Marxists, Michael Schwerner, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Nazi-Soviet Pact, New Left, New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, Nobel Peace Prize, Operation BARBAROSSA, peace movement, Poverty Program, racialism, RFK, Robert Kennedy, Ross Barnett, SCLC, Second World War, SNCC, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Soviet Union, spies, Stanley Levison, Stokely Carmichael, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Subversive Activities Control Act, surveillance, urban guerrillas, Vietnam War, Viola Liuzzo, W.E.B. Du Bois, Weather Underground, William C. Sullivan, Yezhovshchina on November 16, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Jews and the Russian Orthodox Church

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 10 October 2024

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This entry was posted in History, Russia and tagged Adolf Hitler, Albigensianism, Albigensians, Aleksander Men, Alexander Men, Alexy II, Antisemitism, Archpriest John Vostorgov, Émile Zola, Bible, Black Hundreds, blood libel, Bolshevik Revolution, Byzantine Empire, Byzantium, Catharism, Cathars, Catholicism, Christianity, Church Fathers, Communism, Council of Trent, deicide, Dreyfus affair, Ecclesiastical Collegium, End Times, Enlightenment, fascism, February Revolution, Gospels, Grand Prince Vladimir, Greek Orthodox Church, heretics, Hieromonk Heliodorus, Hieromonk Iliodor, Hilarion of Kiev, Ignatius Brianchaninov, Ilarion of Kiev, Islam, Israel, Ivan Alexandrovich Ilyin, Ivan Ilyin, Ivan Sanin, Ivan Sergiyev, Ivan Snychev, Ivan the Terrible, Jews, Jews for Jesus, John Chrysostom, John Iliytch Sergieff, John of Kronstadt, Joseph of Volokolamsk, Joseph of Volotsk, Joseph Stalin, Joseph Volotsky, Judaism, Khazars, Kievan Rus, Kirill, laity, Latin Christendom, laymen, liturgy, Metropolitan John, monasticism, monastics, monotheism, Most Holy Synod, Nestor the Chronicler, Nestor the Hagiographer, New Testament, Nikolai Maikov, Nikon of Vologda, Nil Sorski, Nilus of Sora, Old Testament, Orthodox Church, paganism, Pale of Settlement, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus, Patriarchate, Patristic Era, patristics, perestroika, Peter the Great, Philosopher’s Discourse, pogroms, Pope Gregory X, Pope Innocent IV, Primary Chronicle, Protestantism, Protestants, Pyotr I, racism, Reformation, Renaissance, Roman Catholic Church, Romanian Orthodox Church, Russia, Russian Empire, Russian intelligentsia, Russian nationalism, Russian Orthodox Church, S. Bulgakov, Saint Theodosius, Second Vatican Council, secularism, Serbian Orthodox Church, Sergei Bulgakov, Sergei Michailovich Trufanov, Sergei Trufanov, Soviet Union, Synodal era, Tale of Bygone Years, Tanakh, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Theodosius the Cenobiarch, theology, Ukraine, V.I. Ilyin, V.I. Solovyov, Vladimir Gundyayev, Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov, Vladimir Solovyov, Vladimir Sviatoslavich, Vladimir the Great, Yuri Tabak on October 10, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The Petrov Affair: Soviet Spies and Australian Reaction in the Early Cold War

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 8 April 2024

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged A.G. Vislykh, Albert Grundeman, Alger Hiss, Allan Dalziel, apartheid, ASIO, ASIS, Augusto Pinochet, Australia, Australian Communist Party, Australian Labor Party, Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist), Australian Secret Intelligence Service, Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, B. A. Santamaria, Baltics, Ben Chifley, Bolshevik Revolution, Cambridge Five, Cambridge spies, Canada, Captive Nations, Charles Spry, China, CIA, Clement Attlee, Cold War, Committee of Information, Communism, Communist Control Act, Communist Party United States of America, corruption, CPUSA, DIABOLO, Donald Maclean, Dwight Eisenhower, E.V. Kovalenok, Ethel Rosenberg, Evdokia Kartseva, FBI, Fergan O’Sullivan, Five Eyes, France, Frankin Delano Roosevelt, Genrikh Yagoda, Geoffrey Yeend, Georgy Malenkov, Gough Whitlam, Great Terror, Greece, GRIGORII, GRU, Guy Burgess, H.C. Beckett, Henry Kerby, Herbert Evatt, Igor Gouzenko, Illegals, Imperial Japan, Imperialism, Intelligence, Jews, John Curtin, Joseph Davies, Joseph Stalin, journalists, Julius Rosenberg, KGB, KI, Kim Philby, Konstantin Volkov, Korean War, Lavrentiy Beria, Legals, Liberal Party, Liberal-National Coalition, Lydia Mokras, Magnificent Five, Marxism, McCarthyism, MGB, MI5, MI6, Michael Bialoguski, mole, National Government, Nazis, Nazism, New Zealand, Nikolai Bukharin, Nikolai Generalov, Nikolai Khokhlov, Nikolai Lifanov, NKVD, Operation CABIN 12, Philip Kislitsyn, Poland, Pyotr Prudnikov, Red Army, Red China, Red Scare, rezident, Rezidentura, Robert Manne, Robert Menzies, Roman Krivosh, Ron Richards, Rose-Marie Oilier, Royal Commission on Espionage, Rupert Lockwood, Russian Revolution, Second World War, secret police, SIGINT, signals intelligence, SIS, Smith Act, South Africa, Soviet Union, spies, Sydney Harbour, Sydney Morning Herald, TASS, The Petrov Affair, totalitarianism, treason, Ukraine, Victor Kravchenko, Vladimir Petrov, Vladimir Putin, Volunteer Army, Vyacheslav Molotov, Whittaker Chambers, Winston Churchill, Yezhovshchina, Yuriy Rastvorov, Zinoviev Letter on April 8, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The “First Red Scare”: America and Communism in 1919

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 5 August 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged ACLU, Alexander Berkman, Alexander Kolchak, Alexander Palmer, American Civil Liberties Union, American Protective League, anarchism, Anarchist Exclusion Act, anti-Catholicism, Antisemitism, Anton Denikin, Ariete Group, Arthur McElfresh, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Battle of the Somme, Ben Cassagranda, Bernard Eubanks, Bert Bland, Black Hand gang, Bolshevik Revolution, Bolshevism, Britt Smith, Brusilov Offensive, Bureau of Investigation, Carlo Valdinoci, Centralia Massacre, civil rights, CLPA, COMINTERN, Communism, Communist Labor Party of America, Communist Party of the United States of America, CPUSA, D.W. Griffith, Dale Hubbard, Emma Goldman, espionage, Espionage Act, Eugene Barnett, Eugene Debs, Eugene Pfister, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, First Red Scare, First World War, Galleanisti, Germany, Great Migration, Haymarket affair, Henry Clay Frick, Homestead strike, Immigration Act, Industrial Workers of the World, Italian anarchists, IWW, J. Edgar Hoover, James McInerney, Jews, Jim Crow, John Lamb, John Watt, Joseph McCarthy, Ku Klux Klan, labour strikes, Leon Czolgosz, Loren Roberts, Lost Cause, Lovett Fort-Whiteman, Luigi Galleani, MANHATTAN Project, Mario Buda, McCarthyism, Mike Sheehan, Narodniki, Narodniks, Nestor Makhno, Nicola Sacco, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, O.C. Bland, Palmer Raids, Peter Bianki, pogroms, political warfare, Protestantism, racialism, racism, radicals, Ray Becker, reconstruction, Red Arc, Red Scare, Red Terror, Robert Minor, Russia, Russian terrorist-revolutionaries, Sedition Act, segregation, Selective Service Act, Socialist Party of America, SPA, spies, terrorism, The Birth of a Nation, Union of Russian Workers, Volunteer Army, W.E.B. Du Bois, Wall Street bombing, Warren Grimm, What is to Be Done?, William McKinley, Wobblies, Woodrow Wilson on August 5, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

A Flawed Film Brings Attention to the Soviet Terror-Famine in Ukraine

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 April 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Ada Brooks, Adolf Hitler, Andrea Chalupa, Animal Farm, Bolshevik Revolution, chemical weapons, China, collectivisation, Communism, concentration camps, Cultural Revolution, David Lloyd George, dekulakisation, Democrats, Edgar Allan Poe, espionage, Eugene Lyons, fake news, famine, FDR, First World War, Five-Year Plan, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Gareth Jones, genocide, Genocide Convention, George Orwell, Germany, Great Depression, Great Man Theory, GULAG, History, Hitler-Stalin Pact, Holodomor, international law, James Norton, Japan, Joseph Mawle, Joseph Stalin, Kazakhstan, Kenneth Cranham, KGB, kulaks, Magnificent Five, Marcin Czarnik, Metro-Vickers Affair, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Mr. Jones, Nazis, Nazism, NKVD, Nuremberg Trials, Operation BARBAROSSA, Paul Kleb, Paul Klebnikov, Red China, Richard Nixon, Robert Conquest, Russia, Russian Revolution, Second World War, secret police, Soviet Union, spies, subversion, surveillance, terror-famine, The Harvest of Sorrow, The Masque of the Red Death, The New York Times, theology, totalitarianism, Treaty of Berlin, Treaty of Rapallo, Treaty of Versailles, Ukraine, Vanessa Kirby, Walter Duranty, weapons of mass destruction, Weimar Germany, WMD, Zhou Enlai on April 28, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

British MP, Soviet Spy: Tom Driberg

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 26 March 2023

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This entry was posted in History and tagged active measures, Adolf Hitler, alcoholism, Anglican Church, Anglo-Catholicism, Antisemitism, Arnold Deutsch, Arnold Goodman, Bolshevik Revolution, Britain, Cambridge spies, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Christianity, Church of England, CIA, Clement Attlee, CND, Cold War, COMINTERN, Communism, Communist Party of Great Britain, compromising material, counter-intelligence, CPGB, Donald Maclean, Ena Binfield, espionage, fascism, Francisco Franco, General Franco, Great Terror, GULAG, Guy Burgess, Guy Burgess: A Portrait with Background, Harold Wilson, Hitler Youth, Hitler-Stalin Pact, Holocaust, homosexuality, Hungarian Revolution, Hungarian uprising, Ian Mikardo, Intelligence, Jeremy Corbyn, Jews, John Macnamara, Joseph Stalin, KGB, Kim Philby, kompromat, Korean War, Labour Party, Leon Trotsky, LEPAGE, Lord Beaverbrook, Mafia, Magnificent Five, MÄDCHEN, MI5, MI6, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Moscow Centre, NATO, Nazi Germany, Nazi-Soviet Pact, Nazism, Operation BARBAROSSA, organised crime, peace movement, Profumo affair, progressive, progressivism, purges, Raymond Fletcher, Reginald Kray, Robert Boothby, Ronald Kray, Ruling Passions, Second Vatican Council, Security Service, SIS, socialism, Soviet Illegals, Soviet invasion of Hungary, Soviet Union, Spanish civil war, spy, StB, SYNOK, The Daily Express, The Daily Worker, The Tribune Group, Tom Driberg, United States, Vatican, Vietnam War, Winston Churchill, World Peace Council, Yezhovshchina on March 26, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Could Britain Have Saved the Tsar?

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 7 November 2022

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This entry was posted in History, Russia and tagged Alexander Ievreinov, Alexander II, Alexander III, Alexander Kerensky, Alexandra Feodorovna, Alexandra of Denmark, Alfonso XIII, Anton Denikin, ARCOS affair, Arthur Balfour, Arthur Bigge, Battle of the Somme, Black Hundreds, Bolshevik Revolution, Bolsheviks, Brusilov Offensive, Christian X, Constituent Assembly, Cossacks, Crimea, Czech Legion Aleksandr Kolchak, Dagmar, David Lloyd George, Duma, Eugene Botkin, Eugene Kobylinsky, Evno Azef, February Revolution, First World War, Francis Bertie, George Buchanan, George V, Germany, Glorious Revolution, God, Grigory Rasputin, Gustaf V, Henry Hyndman, Herbert Asquith, HMS Marlborough, Ice March, Ispolkom, Japan, Jews, Jonas Lied, July Days, Kaiser, Konstantin Pobedonostsev, Kornilov Affair, Kuklin House, liberals, Lord Stamfordham, Marxism, Meiji Japan, Mikhail Alexandrovich, Mikhail Tereshchenko, Nicholas II, Nicholas Nikolaevich, Nicholas Nikolayevich, October Manifesto, Okhrana, Okhranka, Orthodox Christianity, Pavel Milyukov, Pierre Gilliard, Provisional Government, Pyotr Stolypin, Queen Victoria, Ramsay MacDonald, Red Terror, religion, Robert Cecil, Romania, Romanovs, Russian Revolution, Russian terrorist-revolutionaries, Russian Whites, Siberia, Soviet Union, starets, Trans-Siberian Railway, Tsar, Tsarina, Ukraine, Vladimir Lenin, Volunteer Army, Woodrow Wilson, Yalta, Yevno Azef on November 7, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

The Shah’s Perspective on the Islamic Revolution That Toppled Him

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 October 2022

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This entry was posted in History, Iran and tagged Abolhassan Banisadr, Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Ali Khamene’i, Anthony Parsons, Anwar al-Sadat, Atatürk, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Bolshevik coup, Bolshevik Revolution, Catherine the Great, China, Cold War, Communism, craze, Ebrahim Yazdi Ruhollah Khomeini, Ekaterina II, Fakhr Arai, French Revolution, Great Civilisation, Hizballah, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, human rights, Ibrahim Yazdi, Iran, Iranian Revolution, IRGC, Islam, Islamic Republic, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamism, Jafar Sharif-Emami, Jimmy Carter, John F. Kennedy, Kemalism, laik, Lebanon, Leonid Brezhnev, liberalisation, liberals, Liberation Movement of Iran, Libya, LMI, Mahsa Amini, Mehdi Bazargan, Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari, Mohammad Mosaddegh, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, mujahideen, Mustafa Kemal, Napoleon Bonaparte, Ngo Dinh Diem, Nicolae Ceausescu, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Parviz Sabeti, Persia, Peter the Great, PLO, propaganda, religion, Reza Khan, Reza Shah, Robert Huyser, Russian Revolution, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, SAVAK, secularism, Shah, Soviet Union, Sun King Louis XIV, terrorism, Tsar Pyotr I, Tudeh, Turkey, Westernisation, White Revolution, William Sullivan, women’s rights on October 30, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

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