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How the First Nagorno-Karabakh War Broke Out

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 15 October 2026

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This entry was posted in History and tagged 366th Motorized Regiment, Agdam, Anatoly Zenevich, Andranik, Andranik Ozanian, Armenia, Armenian national movement, Armenians, Artur Mkrtchian, Asif Makhamerov, Ayaz Mutalibov, Azerbaijan, Azeris, Baku Pogrom, Black January, Bolsheviks, Boris Yeltsin, Bosnian civil war, Cheka, Chekists, Christians, ethnic cleansing, fedayeen, fedayi, First Karabakh War, First Nagorno-Karabakh War, General Andranik, Heydar Aliyev, HHSh, Imperial Russia, Israel, Kavbiuro, KGB, Khankendi, Khojaly, Khojaly Massacre, Kirovabad massacre, Levon Ter-Petrosyan, Mikhail Gorbachev, Miracle on the Vistula, Muslims, Norad Ter-Grigoriants, Norat Ter-Grigoryants, OMON, Operation RING, Pan-Armenian National Movement, Qajar Iran, Red Army, Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Soviet invasion of Hungary, Soviet Union, Stepanakert, Sumgait Pogrom, Turkey, uti possidetis juris, Valery Grigorian, Vladimir Kryuchkov, Vladimir Lenin, Volksaufstand, Woodrow Wilson, Yaqub Mamed, Zheleznovodsk Accords on October 15, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

The Armenian Revolutionary Movement: 1860s to 1915

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 March 2026

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This entry was posted in History, Turkey and tagged 1856 Paris Treaty, 1871 London Declaration, 1956 Hungarian Revolution, Abraham Hartunian, Aleksandr Adamov, Aleksandr Olferiev, Alexander A. Adamov, Alexander Khatisian, Alexander Khatissian, Allied Landing at Gallipoli, Andranik, Andranik Ozanian, ARA, Aram Manukian, Aram Turabian, ARF, Armen Garo, Armenakan Party, Armenian genocide, Armenian Narodniks, Armenian national movement, Armenian Patriarchate, Armenian Provinces, Armenian Question, Armenian Republic, Armenian Revolutionary Army, Armenian Revolutionary Federation, Armenian revolutionary movement, Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, Armenian volunteers, Armenians, Arshak Gavafian, ASALA, Balkan Wars, Battle of Sarikamish, Bedros Kapamajian, Bitlis uprising, Boghos Nubar, Bolshevik coup, Britain, Caliph, caliphate, Capitulations, Captain Molyneux-Seel, Caucasus Campaign, Cemal Pasha, Christendom, Christians, Civil War, Clarence Ussher, Commander Vartan, Committee of Union and Progress, Communism, Congress of Berlin, Constantinople, Count Illarion Vorontsov-Dashkov, counter-insurgency, Crimean War, CUP, Cyrus Hamlin, Dardanelles Strait, Dashnaks, Defence of Van, Djemal Pasha, Drastamat Kanayan, dreadnought, Dro, Enlightenment, Enver Pasha, Erzurum, fedayi, First World War, France, French Revolution, Friedrich Posselt, Gallipoli Campaign, Garegin Nzhdeh, Garegin Pastermadjian, General Andranik, Germany, Great Eastern Crisis, Great War, Greek War of Independence, Grigor Avsharian, Grigory Chernozubov, guerrilla warfare, guerrillas, Hamazasp Srvandztyan, Haroutiun, Harutyun, Hay Heghapokhakan Dashnaktsutyun, Henry Morgenthau, Herbert Henry Asquith, Heroes of Vaspurakan, Holocaust, Hovhannes Kajaznuni, Hrayr Dzhoghk, Hunchaks, Hungarian uprising, Ian M. Smith, ideology, Imperial Russia, IMRO, insurgency, Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization, Iran, Ishkhan, Islam, JCAG, jihad, jizya, Joseph Pomiankowski, Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Kapriel Papazian, Kapriel S. Papazian, Keri, Kevork Chavush, Khoren Ashekian, Kurdish tribes, Kurdistan, Kurds, liberalism, Marxism, Mekertich Portukalian, Mesrop of Maku, Mikael Seryan, Mikayel Papadjanian, Mikayel Varandian, Moushegh Seropian, Muhacir, Mullah Selim, Muslims, Narodniki, national liberation movement, nationalism, Nigol, Nikoghayos Mikayelian, Nikolai Hartwig, Nikolai Yudenich, Otto Liman von Sanders, Ottoman Armenia, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Third Army, Pandukht, Persia, politics, Posselt Pascha, propaganda, Protestant, provocation strategy, Pyotr Kalitin, Rafael de Nogales, Ramgavar Party, Robert W. Graves, Roman Catholics, Russia, Sargis Hovhannisian, Sargis Mehrabyan, Sasun rebellion, sectarianism, Selim Efendi al-Hizani, Serbia, Sergey Sazonov, Sir Philip Currie, Six Provinces, Six Vilayets, Social Democratic Hunchakian Party, socialism, Sogho of Akhaltskha, Soviet Revolution, Soviet Union, Special Organisation, Stanley E. Kerr, strategy of provocation, Sublime Porte, Sultan, Sultan Abdul Hamid II, Tehcir Law, terrorism, terrorist-revolutionaries, Teşkilat-ı Mahsusa, Treaty of Berlin, Tsar Nicholas II, Tsardom, Turkey, Turkish Armenia, United States, Van rebellion, Wilhelm Souchon, Winston Churchill, Yeniköy Treaty, Young Turk Revolution, Young Turks, Zeytun rebellion on March 31, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

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.

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