Tag Archives: Soviet Union

The Ideology of Nazism

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 7 April 2023

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British MP, Soviet Spy: Tom Driberg

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 26 March 2023

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

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 14 March 2023

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Nazism: Origins and the Weimar Context

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 March 2023

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A Prop of Autocracy and a Nest of Spies: The Russian Orthodox Church

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 6 February 2023

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Christianity, the West, and Russia’s War on Ukraine

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 20 November 2022

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Could Britain Have Saved the Tsar?

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 7 November 2022

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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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The Shah’s Perspective on the Islamic Revolution That Toppled Him

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 October 2022

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Islamic State Attacks the Russian Embassy in Afghanistan, Uses it Against the Taliban

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 10 September 2022

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