By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 January 2024
Manipulating the Gaza Casualty Figures is Central to HAMAS’ and Iran’s Strategy Against Israel
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A Note on Zhdanovism
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 7 August 2023
Andrey Zhdanov was one of the key figures in the Soviet Great Terror (Yezhovshchina) and, indeed, during Stalin’s reign more generally until his death in 1948. Zhdanov is perhaps best remembered for the strictures he imposed on Soviet cultural life in 1946, known as Zhdanovism (or Zhdanovshchina).
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Western Self-Hatred and the Iranian Revolution
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 1 November 2022
The late Bernard Lewis recorded in his memoir, Notes on a Century: Reflections of A Middle East Historian (2012), meeting the Shah of Iran “a year before” the Islamic Revolution that felled him, thus, some time in early 1978:
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