By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 10 October 2023
Iran Was Behind the Massacre in Israel
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Islamic State Introduces the Fifth “Caliph”
Origins of Vampire Stories: When, Where, and How
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).
Turkey Tries to Exploit the Latest “Blasphemy” Controversy in Sweden
Christianity, the West, and Russia’s War on Ukraine
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:
The Shah’s Perspective on the Islamic Revolution That Toppled Him
The ‘Strategic Plan’ of the Islamic State
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 August 2022
Bloody Sunday and the Irish Republican Army
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 June 2022
