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Meeting Protestants in Ukraine

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 May 2025

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This entry was posted in Foreign Travel, Russia and tagged A Jesus Mission, atheism, Austria, Battle of Poltava, Bible, Bolsheviks, Catherine the Great, Cheka, Chekists, Christianity, Cold War, Communism, Crimea, Crimean Khanate, Dnipro, Donald Trump, Donbas, Donetsk, Ekaterina II, Enlightenment, Euromaidan, Evangelical Christianity, George Floyd, Germany, Gleb Kopalin, God, Golden Horde, Greek Catholic Uniates, GRU, Habsburgs, Hezbollah, Hitler-Stalin Pact, Hizballah, humanitarian aid, Ignatius Aphrem II, Igor Pilipyshka, Intelligence, Israel, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jews for Jesus, KGB, Kharkiv, Kievan Rus, Kyiv Jewish Messianic Congregation, Latin Christendom, Lebanon, Left-Bank Ukraine, Little Green Men, Luhansk, Maidan Uprising, Mariupol, Mercy House, Minsk I, Minsk II, Mongols, NATO, Nazis, Nicodemites, Orthodox Christianity, Ottoman Empire, Poland, Protestantism, Protestants, Prussia, Reformation, religion, religious persecution, Right-Bank Ukraine, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholics, Russia, Russian Orthodox Church, Save One More Life, Second World War, secularism, siloviki, Soviet Union, spies, Stephen Smith, Syria, Twitch, Ukrainian Cyborgs, Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky, White Angels, Zaporizhiya on May 28, 2025 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 Russian Terrorist-Revolutionary Movement: 1845 – 1866

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 September 2024

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This entry was posted in History, Russia and tagged 1848 Revolutions, Alexander Herzen, Alexander I, Alexander II, Alexander Serno-Solovyevich, anarchism, Arthur Koestler, Baron August von Haxthausen, Bolshevik Party, Bolsheviks, Christianity, Communism, Decembrist Revolt, Decembrists, Dmitry Karakozov, Dmitry Pisarev, Enlightenment, equality, French Revolution, Friedrich Engels, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Georgi Plekhanov, ideology, Ivan Turgenev, Jacobinism, Jacobins, Karl Marx, Kolokol, Leo Tolstoy, liberalism, literature, Marxism, materialism, Men of the Forties, Men of the Sixties, Mikhail Bakunin, Mikhail Mikhailov, Mikhail Petrashevsky, mir, Muslim Brotherhood, Narodism, Narodists, Narodniki, Narodniks, Nazis, Nazism, New Man, Nicholas I, Nihilism, Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Nikolai Dobrolyubov, Nikolai Nekrasov, Nikolai Speshnev, Nikolay Ogarev, obshchina, Ossip Komissarov, Pavel Pestel, Peter the Great, populism, Pyotr I, Pyotr Zaichnevsky, revolution, Russia, Russian Idea, Russian intelligentsia, Sayyid Qutb, Science, secret police, Sergey Uvarov, Social Darwinism, socialism, Sovremennik, terrorism, terrorist-revolutionaries, The Russian Tradition, Third Section, Tibor Szamuely, Tsar, utilitarianism, Varfolomey Zaytsev, Vissarion Belinsky, Vladimir Lenin, What is to Be Done?, Zemlya i Volya on September 30, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The Nature of Pre-Revolutionary Russian Imperialism

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 29 August 2024

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This entry was posted in History, Russia and tagged Abyssinia, Afghanistan, Alaska, Aleut, Aleutian Islands, Alexander II, Alexander III, American Indians, autocracy, Bartolomé de las Casas, Bolsheviks, Britain, California, Canada, Catherine the Great, Central Asia, Christianity, colonialism, Cossacks, Crimean War, Decembrist Revolt, dinosaurs, Djibouti, East India Company, Ekaterina Geladze, Ekaterina II, Enlightenment, Entente Cordiale, Ethiopia, Fashoda Incident, Finland, First World War, Fort Ross, French Revolution, French Somaliland, Georg Anton Schäffer, Germany, Great Game, Great Reforms, Greek Catholics, Grigori Rasputin, Grigory Shelikhov, Hawaii, Hudson’s Bay Company, Imperial Government, Imperialism, Innocent of Alaska, Iran, Islam, Jews, Joseph Stalin, July Crisis, Kaiser, Keke, Kodiak, Koniag, Latin Christendom, liberalism, Manifest Destiny, March to India, Marquis de Custine, Mongol Empire, Muslims, New Archangel, New Moscow, Nicholas I, Nikolai Achinov, Okhrana, Okhranka, Ottoman Empire, paganism, Panjdeh Incident, Paul I, Pavel I, Persia, Peter the Great, Poland, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Pyotr I, Roman Empire, Russia, Russian America, Russian Orthodox Church, Russian Somaliland, Russian-American Company, Russo-Japanese War, Sagallo, salt water fallacy, Scramble for Africa, serfdom, Siberia, Sitka, slavery, slaves, Soviet Union, Spain, Spanish Americas, terrorism, terrorist-revolutionaries, Third World, Tlingit, totalitarianism, Ukraine, Uniates, United States, Velociraptor, Veniaminov, Vitus Bering on August 29, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The Recreation of Israel, War, and Survival

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 May 2024

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This entry was posted in History, Iran and tagged 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War, Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, Abdul Rahman Azzam, Adolf Hitler, Alec Kirkbride, Alfred Dreyfus, anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, Arab Higher Committee, Arab League, Arab Liberation Army, Arab-Israeli War, Armenian genocide, Army of Holy War, Army of Sacred War, Arthur Garrels, Ba’ath Party, Balfour Declaration, Bar Kokhba Revolt, Battle of Armageddon, Battle of Megiddo, Benny Morris, Bolsheviks, Bosnia, Britain, British Empire, Buddhism, caliphate, Chaim Weizmann, Christendom, Christianity, Committee of Union and Progress, Communism, Constantin Zureiq, Crusaders, CUP, Cybele, Czechoslovakia, David Ben-Gurion, Declaration of the Rights of Man, Deir Yassin massacre, Der Judenstaat, Djemal Pasha, Edmund Allenby, Egypt, Emperor Hadrian, Enlightenment, espionage, Fawzi al-Qawuqji, First World War, François Georges-Picot, France, French Revolution, Gaza Strip, genocide, Germany, Golda Meir, Great War, Greeks, H.H. Asquith, Hasan Salama, Hasan Salameh, Hassan Salama, Hassan Salameh, Herbert Asquith, Hindu nationalism, Hinduism, Hindutva, Holocaust, Holy Land, Holy War Army, Husayn bin Ali, Ibn Saud, IDF, India, Ioudaismos, Iraq, Iron Wall, Islamism, Israel, Israel Defence Forces, Israeli War of Independence, Jamal al-Husayni, Jaysh al-Jihad al-Muqadas, Jerusalem, Jewish Agency for Palestine, Jewish State, Jewish Temple, Jews, jihad, Jordan, Judaism, Kaiser, Konstantin Pobedonostsev, Land of Israel, League of Nations, Lebanon, Lydda, Maccabees, Mahmud al-Nuqrashi, Mandate Palestine, Mark Sykes, Mizrahi Jews, Mizrahim, Moshe Sharett, Muhammad Amin al-Husayni, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Nakba Day, Nazis, Nazism, Neturei Karta, New Historians, Nicholas II, Operation ASSAF, Operation HIRAM, Operation HOREV, Operation SHMONE, Operation UVDA, Operation YOAV, Ottoman Empire, Pakistan, Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Palestinian refugees, Palestinians, Passover, Peel Commission, Plan D, PLO, pogroms, Protestantism, Raj, Ramla, Rashid Ali al-Gaylani, religion, right of return, Roman Catholicism, Romans, Russian Civil War, Russian Empire, Russian Orthodox Church, Sacred Jihad Army, Sacred War Army, Saddam Hussein, Saudi Arabia, Second World War, secularism, Shukri al-Quwatli, Sir John Glubb, Soviet Union, Sykes-Picot Agreement, Sykes-Picot Treaty, Syria, Ten Days Battles, terrorist-revolutionaries, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Theodor Herzl, Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Tsar, Tsardom, Turkey, United Nations, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, United States, UNRWA, Vendée, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Vladimir Lenin, Wahhabism, Warren Austin, West Bank, Yasser Arafat, Yiddish, Yishuv, Yitzhak Gruenbaum, Zionism on May 16, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The September Massacres: The Violence Inherent in the French Revolution

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 September 2023

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This entry was posted in History and tagged AbbéSicard, American Revolution, ancien régime, atrocities, Austria, Austrian Netherlands, Battle of Yorktown, Belgium, bishops, Brabant Revolution, Britain, British Empire, Brunswick Manifesto, Charles William Ferdinand, Christianity, Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Civil Constitution of the Clergy, Claude Antoine de Valdec de Lessart, Communism, Comte de Rochambeau, Declaration of Pillnitz, Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, Duke of Brunswick, Enlightenment, Estates General, Fabre d’Eglantine, fédérés, François-Noël Babeuf, France, Frederick William II, French Revolution, genocide, George III, Georges Danton, Girondins, Guerre de Vendée, Habsburgs, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, heresy, Holy Roman Empire, Inquisition, insurrection, Jacobins, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, Jean-Denis Violette, Jean-Lambert Tallien, Jean-Marie Roland, Jean-Paul Marat, Joachim Ceyrat, Jourgniac de Saint-Méard, Leopold II, lettre de cachet, liberty, Louis Collenot d’Angremont, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Marquis de Sade, Maximilien Robespierre, monarchism, National Assembly, National Guard, Paris Commune, priests, Princesse de Lamballe, Prussia, radicalism, republicanism, Revolutionary Tribunal, Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard, Roman Catholic Church, sans-culottes, secularism, September Massacres, Seven Years’ War, show trial, Siege of Yorktown, Simon Schama, slaves, Stanislas Maillard, Storming of the Bastille, Swiss Guards, Tennis Court Oath, Tenth of August Insurrection, Third Estate, Thirteen Colonies, Tuileries Palace, Vendée, Vendée War, Versailles, War in the Vendée on September 3, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Murder, Martyrs, and Mystery: The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 August 2023

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Alba, Albigensian Crusade, Amboise conspiracy, Anabaptists, Angoulême, Anjou, Anne d’Este, Anne du Bourg, Armada, Armenian genocide, assassinations, Aumale, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Battle of Lepanto, Bayonne, Bolsheviks, Caterina de Medici, Cathars, Catherine de Medici, Catholicism, Charles de Téligny, Charles of Louviers, Charles V, Christendom, Christianity, Christophe de Villeneuve, Condé, Council of Trent, Counter-Reformation, dark ages, Edict of Amboise, Edict of Romorantin, Edict of Saint-Germain, Elizabeth I, England, Enlightenment, extermination, Fernando de Toledo, François de Lorraine, France, Francis of Lorraine, French Parlement, French Revolution, Gaspard de Coligny, genocide, Germany, Guy Du Faur, Henri de Guise, Henri de Valois, Henry of Guise, Henry of Navarre, heresy, Holy Roman Empire, Huguenots, Ian Paisley, Ignatius of Loyola, Iran, Italy, Ivan the Terrible, Jacques de Savoie, Jean Poltrot de Méré, Jesuits, John Calvin, Ku Klux Klan, Louis de Gonzague, Lutheranism, Marguerite de Valois, Martin Luther, Mary Stuart, Mass, Maurevert, Monsoreau, Montpensier, Munster Rebellion, Nemours, Nevers, Northern Ireland, Ottomans, Papal Revolution, Philip II, pogroms, Pope, Pope Gregory VII, Pope Gregory XIII, Portugal, Prince of Orange, Protestant Wind, Protestantism, Psalms, Puritans, Puygaillard, Queen of Scots, Red Wedding, Reformation, religion, René de Birague, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Inquisition, Russia, Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, sectarianism, Seigneur de Pibrac, Seigneur de Vaucluse, Sir Francis Drake, Sir Francis Walsingham, Spain, Spanish Netherlands, superstition, Surprise of Meaux, Te Deum, Terror, The Wake-Up Call for the French and their Neighbours, Thirty Years’ War, Throckmorton Plot, Transubstantiation, Ugonottorum Strages, ultra-Catholics, Vassy Massacre, Vendée, Wars of Religion on August 31, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Origins of Vampire Stories: When, Where, and How

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 17 August 2023

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Antisemitism, Arnold Paole, Austria, bloodsuckers, Bram Stoker, caliphate, Catholicism, Central Europe, Christendom, Counter-Reformation, Devil, disease, Dracula, Enlightened despot, Enlightenment, Europe, Flückinger, folklore, Frederick the Great, Frombald, Glaser, Habsburg Empire, Habsburgs, hajduk, Hammer of Witches, Heinrich Kramer, Hell, heresy, Holy Roman Empire, homosexuality, Hungarian disease, Immanuel Kant, Imperialism, Islam, Jews, Johann Friedrich Glaser, Kievan Rus, Kisiljevo, Kucklina, Latin Christendom, Lord Byron, Malleus Maleficarum, Maria Theresa, medieval period, Medveđa, Michael Ranft, Middle Ages, Morbus hungaricus, Nachzehrer, Nazis, Nazism, Norsemen, Orthodox Christianity, orthodoxy, Ottoman Empire, paganism, pagans, Papal Revolution, Petar Blagojević, philosophe, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Prince Eugene of Savoy, propaganda, Protestantism, Romania, Saints, Salem, Salem witch trials, Satan, Satanism, Serbia, siege of Vienna, Slavs, soothsaying, sorcery, supernatural, superstition, The Chewing and Chomping of the Dead in their Graves, The Vampire: Origins of a European Myth, theology, Thiess of Kaltenbrun, Thomas Acquinas, Thomas M. Bohn, Transylvania, typhus, upiór, vampires, vampirism, Vikings, Visum et Repertum, Vlad the Impaler, werewolves, witch craze, witchcraft, witches on August 17, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The Decembrist Revolt: Russia’s Revolutionary Tradition Begins

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 June 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Russia and tagged Albigensian Crusade, Aleksey Arakcheyev, Alexander Benckendorff, Alexander Boshniak, Alexander Golitsyn, Alexander Herzen, Alexander I, Alexander Pushkin, Alexander Radishchev, Anastasy Kuzmin, Ancient Greece, Arkady Maiboroda, Arzamas Society, assassination, Astolphe de Custine, Austria, Battle of Austerlitz, Battle of Borodino, Battle of Kulm, Battle of Leipzig, Battle of Maloyaroslavets, Battle of the Nations, Battle of Trafalgar, Battle of Waterloo, Bolsheviks, Britain, Catherine the Great, Catholicism, Charles XII, chinovnik, Christianity, Civil Constitution of the Clergy, Classical world, Classics, Committee of Public Safety, Congress of Vienna, conspiracy, Crimean War, Decembrist Revolt, Decembrist wife, Dekabristka, egalitarianism, Ekaterina II, Ekaterina Trubetskaya, Enlightenment, espionage, Freemasonry, French Revolution, Greek Revolution, Gustav Goebel, Higher Police, Illarion Vasilchikov, Illuminati, Inquisition, Inquisitors, intelligentsia, Ippolit Muravyov-Apostol, Ivan Pushchin, Ivan Vitt, Jacobinism, Jacobins, Jews, John Sherwood, Joseph Stalin, Klemens von Metternich, Kondraty Ryleyev, Konstantin, Latin Christendom, liberalism, Lord Byron, Ludwig Niklaus von Stürler, Marquis de Custine, Mikhail Bestuzhev-Ryumin, Mikhail Kutuzov, Mikhail Miloradovich, Mikhail Speransky, Nakaz, Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleonic Wars, Nicholas I, Nikita Muravyov, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Nikolay Ogarev, Nikolay Panov, Northern Society, Operation BARBAROSSA, Orthodox Christianity, Paul I, Pavel I, Pavel Kiselyov, Pavel Pestel, Philaret Drozdov, Poland, Protestantism, Pyotr Chaadayev, Pyotr Kakhovsky, Roman Catholic Church, Romanovs, Romanticism, Russian Truth, Russkaya Pravda, secret police, secularism, Sergey Muravyov-Apostol, Sergey Trubetskoy, socialism, Society of United Slavs, Southern Society, Soviet Union, Spain, spies, Talleyrand, Terror, terrorism, terrorist-revolutionaries, Third Section, Treaties of Tilsit, Tsar, Ukraine, Union of Salvation, Vasily Davydov, Vendée War, Viscount Castlereagh, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Raevsky, Vladimir Rayevsky, Wilhelm Küchelbecker on June 3, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The Ideology of Nazism

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 7 April 2023

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This entry was posted in History and tagged abortion, Adolf Hitler, Ahnenerbe, Alfred Rosenberg, Ancient Greeks, Antisemitism, apartheid, apocalyptic, Aristotle, Arthur de Gobineau, Aryans, Atlantis, Aufbau Vereinigung, Augustus, Beer Hall Putsch, Benito Mussolini. Fascism, Bible, biology, Bolshevism, Caesar, Charlemagne, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Classical world, Communism, Darwinism, Enlightenment, eugenics, Ezra Pound, Final Solution, First World War, Frederick the Great, Friedrich Engels, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gabriele D’Annunzio, genocide, Germany, Great War, Greco-Roman History, Heinrich Himmler, Holocaust, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Indo-Germans, Jews, Judeo-Bolshevism, Karl Georg Zschaetzsch, Karl Marx, lebensraum, Leonidas, Lothrop Stoddard, Madison Grant, March on Rome, Marxism, Mein Kampf, messianic, messianism, militarism, Napoleon Bonaparte, nationalism, Nazis, Nazism, Nordic, Octavian, Operation BARBAROSSA, paganism, pagans, Peter the Great, philosophy, Plato, racism, radicalisation, rationalism, Reconstruction Organisation, Richard Wagner, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Empire, Romans, Rudolf Hess, Saint Paul, Saul of Tarsus, Science, Social Darwinism, Soviet Union, Sparta, Tanakh, The Myth of the Twentieth Century, The Passing of the Great Race, The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy, Thermopylae, Thule Society, Tibet, totalitarianism, Völkisch movement, Vernichtungskrieg, Vladimir Lenin on April 7, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

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