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The “First Red Scare”: America and Communism in 1919

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 5 August 2023

This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged ACLU, Alexander Berkman, Alexander Kolchak, Alexander Palmer, American Civil Liberties Union, American Protective League, anarchism, Anarchist Exclusion Act, anti-Catholicism, Antisemitism, Anton Denikin, Ariete Group, Arthur McElfresh, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Battle of the Somme, Ben Cassagranda, Bernard Eubanks, Bert Bland, Black Hand gang, Bolshevik Revolution, Bolshevism, Britt Smith, Brusilov Offensive, Bureau of Investigation, Carlo Valdinoci, Centralia Massacre, civil rights, CLPA, COMINTERN, Communism, Communist Labor Party of America, Communist Party of the United States of America, CPUSA, D.W. Griffith, Dale Hubbard, Emma Goldman, espionage, Espionage Act, Eugene Barnett, Eugene Debs, Eugene Pfister, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, First Red Scare, First World War, Galleanisti, Germany, Great Migration, Haymarket affair, Henry Clay Frick, Homestead strike, Immigration Act, Industrial Workers of the World, Italian anarchists, IWW, J. Edgar Hoover, James McInerney, Jews, Jim Crow, John Lamb, John Watt, Joseph McCarthy, Ku Klux Klan, labour strikes, Leon Czolgosz, Loren Roberts, Lost Cause, Lovett Fort-Whiteman, Luigi Galleani, MANHATTAN Project, Mario Buda, McCarthyism, Mike Sheehan, Narodniki, Narodniks, Nestor Makhno, Nicola Sacco, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, O.C. Bland, Palmer Raids, Peter Bianki, pogroms, political warfare, Protestantism, racialism, racism, radicals, Ray Becker, reconstruction, Red Arc, Red Scare, Red Terror, Robert Minor, Russia, Russian terrorist-revolutionaries, Sedition Act, segregation, Selective Service Act, Socialist Party of America, SPA, spies, terrorism, The Birth of a Nation, Union of Russian Workers, Volunteer Army, W.E.B. Du Bois, Wall Street bombing, Warren Grimm, What is to Be Done?, William McKinley, Wobblies, Woodrow Wilson on August 5, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Jewish Memory and Loss

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 18 July 2023

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This entry was posted in Book Review, History and tagged Antisemitism, Batnadiv HaKarmi, Einsatzgruppen, Europe, Hebrew Bible, Holocaust, Holocaust-by-bullets, Ioudaismos, Jews, Judaism, Nazism, poems, poetry, Poland, religion, Russia, Second World War, Tanakh, The Love of Mortal Beings, Ukraine on July 18, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Did Russia Ever Start a Democratic Transition? Can It?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 July 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Russia, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged absolute monarchy, Anglosphere, aristocracy, Atatürk, autocracy, black cash, Bolsheviks, Boris Yeltsin, Bulgaria, Captive Nations, Chechnya, Cheka, Cheka Day, Chekists, chinovnichestvo, Christianity, civil liberties, civil society, collectivisation, Communism, corruption, cyber-attacks, Czechoslovakia, dekulakisation, democracy, democratic transition, Dobrarmiya, Duma, East Germany, Ekaterina Schulmann, emancipation, espionage, Europe, far-Right terrorism, Federal Security Service, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Foreign Intelligence Service, FSB, Fundamental State Laws, Gennady Zyuganov, German Democratic Republic, Golden Horde, Homo Sovieticus, ideology, Imperialism, Joseph Stalin, Kievan Rus, liberalism, Mafia, Maria Snegovaya, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mongols, Mustafa Kemal, Narodniki, Narodniks, nationalism, Nichola II, nobility, October Manifesto, organised crime, Pereyaslav Agreement, Peter the Great, pluralism, Pyotr I, Red Army, religion, Right-wing extremism, Romania, Russia, Russian intelligentsia, Russian Orthodox Church, Russian terrorist-revolutionaries, Russian Whites, securocrats, serfdom, SIGINT, signals intelligence, siloviki, Socialist Commonwealth, Soviet Union, surveillance, SVR, Terror, terrorism, third wave of democratisation, Tsar, Turkey, Ukraine, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Putin, Volunteer Army, Yuri Kovalchuk on July 16, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Russian Terrorist-Revolutionaries: Ideology and Worldview

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 13 May 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Russia and tagged Aleksandr Nikitenko, Alexander Herzen, Alexander Pushkin, Anton Chekov, Anton Denikin, apocalyptic, art, autocracy, Übermenschen, Baron August von Haxthausen, Bolsheviks, Boris Savinkov, Britain, capitalism, Christianity, cult of youth, culture, despotism, Edward Said, egalitarianism, emancipation, equality, equity, eschatological, February Revolution, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Fyodor Tyutchev, Going to the People, ideology, intelligentsia, Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, Leon Trotsky, liberalism, literary criticism, Maquis de Custine, Marxism, messianism, Mikhail Gershenzon, Milestones, mir, Moscow Writers’ Union, Narkompros, Narodism, Narodnaya Volya, Narodnichestvo, Narodniks, New Man, Nicholas I, Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Nikolai Dobrolyubov, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Nikolay Dobrolyubov, obshchina, Orientalism, original sin, People’s Will, populism, progress, Provisional Government, Pyotr Lavrov, Pyotr Tkachev, Pyotr Tkachyov, reform, Renaissance, Roman Catholic Church, Russia, Science, scientism, serfdom, Sergey Nechaev, Sergey Nechayev, slavery, Social Darwinism, Soviet Union, terrorism, terrorist-revolutionaries, The Russian Tradition, Tibor Szamuely, Tsardom, Vekhi, Vladimir Lenin, Volunteer Army, Wild West on May 13, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

A Flawed Film Brings Attention to the Soviet Terror-Famine in Ukraine

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 April 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Ada Brooks, Adolf Hitler, Andrea Chalupa, Animal Farm, Bolshevik Revolution, chemical weapons, China, collectivisation, Communism, concentration camps, Cultural Revolution, David Lloyd George, dekulakisation, Democrats, Edgar Allan Poe, espionage, Eugene Lyons, fake news, famine, FDR, First World War, Five-Year Plan, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Gareth Jones, genocide, Genocide Convention, George Orwell, Germany, Great Depression, Great Man Theory, GULAG, History, Hitler-Stalin Pact, Holodomor, international law, James Norton, Japan, Joseph Mawle, Joseph Stalin, Kazakhstan, Kenneth Cranham, KGB, kulaks, Magnificent Five, Marcin Czarnik, Metro-Vickers Affair, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Mr. Jones, Nazis, Nazism, NKVD, Nuremberg Trials, Operation BARBAROSSA, Paul Kleb, Paul Klebnikov, Red China, Richard Nixon, Robert Conquest, Russia, Russian Revolution, Second World War, secret police, Soviet Union, spies, subversion, surveillance, terror-famine, The Harvest of Sorrow, The Masque of the Red Death, The New York Times, theology, totalitarianism, Treaty of Berlin, Treaty of Rapallo, Treaty of Versailles, Ukraine, Vanessa Kirby, Walter Duranty, weapons of mass destruction, Weimar Germany, WMD, Zhou Enlai on April 28, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The Soviet Role and (the Lack of) “Justice” At Nuremberg

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 11 April 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Russia and tagged Adolf Eichmann, Adolf Hitler, Alfred Seidl, Andrey Vyshinsky, Aron Trainin, Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan crisis, Baltics, Ben Ferencz, Bessarabia, Bolsheviks, Bolshevism, Boris Bazilevsky, Britain, Burdenko Report, Claus von Stauffenberg, colonialism, Communism, concentration camps, crimes against humanity, crimes against peace, Czechoslovakia, espionage, Estonia, Eugen Oberhauser, Europe, Finland, France, Francine Hirsch, Franklin Roosevelt, Friedrich Ahrens, Friedrich Gaus, General Melchett, Geoffrey Lawrence, Great Terror, GULAG, Guy Liddell, Hans Frank, Hans Fritzsche, Henry Morgenthau Jr., Hermann Göring, Hitler-Stalin Pact, Hjalmar Schacht, House of Commons, IADL, ICC, ICRC, IMT, Intelligence, intelligentsia, International Association of Democratic Lawyers, International Committee of the Red Cross, International Criminal Court, International Katyn Commission, international law, International Military Tribunal, Iona Nikitchenko, Iran, Iron Curtain, Jews, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Joseph Goebbels, Joseph Stalin, justice, Katyn massacre, Kharkov Trial, Korean War, Krasnodar Trial, Latvia, Leonid Raikhman, Lev Smirnov, Lithuania, Lubyanka, Marko Markov, MI5, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Moscow Trials, Munich Agreement, Nazi-Soviet Pact, Nazis, Nazism, Nikolai Zorya, Nikolay Burdenko, NKVD, Nuremberg Tribunal, Operation BARBAROSSA, Otto Stahmer, Poland, Red Army, Reinhard von Eichborn, Roman Rudenko, Rudolf Hess, Russia, Second World War, secret police, Secret Protocols, Sergei Kolesnikov, show trial, SMERSH, Solomon Lozovsky, Soviet Union, spies, Tatiana Stupnikova, Telford Taylor, Thomas Dodd, totalitarianism, Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Ukraine, United Nations, USSR, victor’s justice, Viktor Prozorovsky, war crimes, West Germany, Winston Churchill, Wladyslaw Sikorski, Yezhovshchina on April 11, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Jihadist “Forever Wars” Don’t End Because Western Troops Are Withdrawn

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 March 2023

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, al-Shabab, Authorization for Use of Military Force, Bashar al-Assad, Bilal al-Sudani, China, Donald Trump, Global War on Terror, GWOT, Hashd al-Shabi, Iran, Iraq, Iraqi Security Forces, IRGC, ISIS, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamism, Joe Biden, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Matt Gaetz, military intervention, NATO, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, PKK, realism, Republicans, Russia, scandal, SDF, Shi’a militias, Somalia, Suhayl Salim Abd al-Rahman, Syria, Syrian Democratic Forces, Taliban, Turkey, Usama bin Laden, War Powers Act, Yemen on March 28, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

What To Make of China “Brokering” the Saudi-Iran Deal

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 14 March 2023

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This entry was posted in Foreign Policy, Gulf States, Iran, Iran Deal and tagged Abqaiq attack, Abqaiq-Khurais attack, America, ARAMCO, Barack Obama, China, Donalt Trump, Egypt, hegemony, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, IRGC, ISIS, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamism, Lebanon, maximum pressure, political warfare, proxy war, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Shia militias, Soviet Union, subversion, Syria, terrorism, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United States, Yemen on March 14, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Nazism: Origins and the Weimar Context

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 March 2023

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Adolf Hitler, Ancient Greeks, Antisemitism, Anton Drexler, Austria-Hungary, Battle of the Somme, Bavaria, Bavarian Soviet Republic, Beer Hall Putsch, Bela Kun, Bolsheviks, Britain, Brownshirts, Brusilov Offensive, Christianity, Communism, Communist Party of Germany, DAP, democracy, Die Frauenkirche, Dietrich Eckart, Dolchstoßlegende, Easter Rising, Erich Ludendorff, Ernst Röhm, espionage, Eugen Leviné, Eugenio Pacelli, far-Right, Ferdinand Foch, First World War, Foxl, France, Franconia, Freikorps, French Revolution, Friedrich Ebert, Georg von Schönerer, German Workers’ Party, Germany, Gottfried Feder, Great Depression, Great War, Habsburgs, Hans Frank, Hermann Esser, Hermann Göring, Hugo Gutmann, Hungary, hyperinflation, Ignatius of Loyola, Ireland, Jesuits, Jews, Joseph Caillaux, Julius Streicher, Kaiser, Kapp Putsch, Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch, Karl Harrer, Karl Liebknecht, Karl Lueger, Karl Mayr, KPD, League of Nations, Lusitania, Lutheranism, March Action, March Revolution, Marxism, Max Levien, Mein Kampf, Mexico, Munich Cathedral, National Socialist German Workers’ Party, nationalism, Nazi Party, Nazism, NSDAP, October Revolution, paganism, pagans, Paul von Hindenburg, Pope Pius XII, Protestantism, Räterepublik, Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold, Roman Catholic Church, Roman salute, Romanovs, Romans, Rosa Luxemburg, Rudolf Hess, Ruhr crisis, Russia, Russian Revolution, SA, Sir Roger Casement, Slovakia, Social Democratic Party, Society of Jesus, Soviet Union, Spartacist uprising, SPD, Stormtroopers, Sturmabteilung, swastika, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion Alfred Rosenberg, Thule Society, Tobias Akselrod, Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Treaty of Versailles, Ulrich Brockdorff-Rantzau, United States, Völkisch movement, Vladimir Lenin, Wall Street crash, Walther von Lüttwitz, Weimar Republic, Wilhelm Frick, William P. Frye, Winston Churchill, Wolfgang Kapp, Woodrow Wilson, Zimmermann Telegram on March 4, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Al-Qaeda and Global Terrorism: What is the Current Threat?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 23 February 2023

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This entry was posted in Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda Terrorism, Islamic State Strategy, Syria and tagged 9/11, Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, Abd al-Malek Drukdel, Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud, Abdirizaq Abdi Saleh, Abdul Malek Drukdel, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, Abdullah al-Faisal, Abdullah al-Muhajir, Abu Muhammad al-Golani, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Abu Musab Abd al-Wadud, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Afghanistan, Africa, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, Ahmad al-Shara, al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda in Iraq, al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, al-Shabab, Alexandre Dhaussy, Amn al-Kharji, Anwar al-Awlaki, AQAP, AQIM, Arid Uka, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Bryan Bijaoui, Carlos Bledsoe, Cedric Cordier, Charlie Hebdo, Chechnya, CIA, Dagestan, Daniel Pearl, Denis Cuspert, Deso Dogg, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Fahd al-Quso, Faisal Shahzad, genocide, Germany, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, Hezbollah, Hibatullah Akhundzada, Hizballah, HTS, Ibrahim al-Asiri, Intelligence, Iran, ISIS, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Israel, Jabhat al-Nusra, Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, JFS, jihadism, Jonathan Sandler, Khairiya Saber, Khaled Shaykh Muhammad, Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, Kosovo, KSM, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Lee Rigby, Major Nidal Hasan, Mali, Michael Adebolajo, Michael Adebowale, Mohammed Merah, Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, Muhammad Saeed al-Shamrani, Muhammad Saladin Zaydan, Muhammad Salah al-Din Zaidan, Mullah Muhammad Omar, Mullah Muhammad Umar, Muslim Brotherhood, Muslims, Myriam Monsonego, Nashwan Abdulbaqi, NATO, One Ummah, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Pakistani Taliban, Pensacola, PKK, President Joe Biden, Private Quinton Ezeagwula, Private William Long, Qasim al-Raymi, Qassem al-Raymi, Qassem Soleimani, Qassem Sulaymani, Richard Reid, Roshonara Choudhry, Russia, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Saif al-Adl, Salafism, Saleh al-Somali, Sanctions, Saudi Arabia, Sayf al-Adel, SDF, September 11 attacks, spies, Stephen Timms, strategy, Syria, Syrian Democratic Forces, Taliban, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Tanzim Hurras al-Deen, Tanzim Hurras al-Din, Tehrik-e-Taliban, terrorism, TTP, Um Hamza, Ummah Wahidah, United States, Usama bin Laden, Waziristan, Yemen, Zionism on February 23, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

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