By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 March 2023
Nazism: Origins and the Weimar Context
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A Prop of Autocracy and a Nest of Spies: The Russian Orthodox Church
Christianity, the West, and Russia’s War on Ukraine
Could Britain Have Saved the Tsar?
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
Islamic State Attacks the Russian Embassy in Afghanistan, Uses it Against the Taliban
“Socialism With A Human Face” Was Always Impossible
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 21 August 2022
It was on this day in 1968, fifty-four years ago, that the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia, one of its colonies in the “Warsaw Pact”, which had embarked on a program of liberalising reforms. The Czech leadership did not intend to depart from the socialist path, merely to soften its edges—and ran into the brute fact that this was not possible. Continue reading
The ‘Strategic Plan’ of the Islamic State
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 August 2022
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