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The Tsardom and the Jews: Antisemitism and Official Policy in the Russian Empire

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 29 April 2026

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This entry was posted in History, Russia and tagged Alexander II, Alexander III, Andrei Yushchinsky, Antisemitism, assassination, autocracy, Beilis trial, Black Hundreds, blood libel, Boevye Druzhiny, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Bolsheviks, Christianity, Christians, collectivisation, Combat Groups, Communism, concentration camps, Constituent Assembly, Cossacks, Count Dmitry Tolstoy, Count Sergei Witte, Czechoslovak Coup, dekulakisation, Dmitriy Gotovtsev, Dmitry Bogrov, Dmitry Gotovtsev, Dreyfus Case, East German uprising, Easter, Emperor, Enlightenment, Fighting Squads, Gendarme, Gomel pogrom, Great Terror, GULAG, historiography, Hitler-Stalin Pact, Holodomor, humanism, Hungarian Revolution, Hungarian uprising, Israel, Jewish Question, Jews, Kadets, Katyn massacre, Kishinev pogrom, Kolyma, Konstantin Pobedonostsev, Kronstadt rebellion, liberalism, liberals, Lithuania, May Laws, Menahem Mendel Beilis, monarchy, Narodnaya Volya, Nazi-Soviet Pact, Nicholas II, Nikolai Ignatiev, October Manifesto, Okhrana, Okhranka, Orthodox Christianity, Pale of Settlement, People’s Will, pogroms, pogromshchiki, Poland, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, political police, Prague Spring, propaganda, Pyotr Stolypin, Reds, Roman Catholicism, Russia, Russian Empire, Russian terrorist-revolutionaries, secret police, sectarianism, serfdom, serfs, socialism, socialists, Solovki Prison Camp, Soviet Union, terror-famine, terrorism, Theodor Herzl, Third Section, Third Section of His Imperial Majesty’s Own Chancellery, Tsar, Tsar-Liberator, Tsardom, Tsarist Government, Uganda Project, Ukraine, Volksaufstand, Volunteer Army, Vyacheslav von Plehve, White Movement, Whites, Yezhovshchina, Zionism, Zionist movement on April 29, 2026 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.

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.

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