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Murder, Martyrs, and Mystery: The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 August 2023

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Alba, Albigensian Crusade, Amboise conspiracy, Anabaptists, Angoulême, Anjou, Anne d’Este, Anne du Bourg, Armada, Armenian genocide, assassinations, Aumale, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Battle of Lepanto, Bayonne, Bolsheviks, Caterina de Medici, Cathars, Catherine de Medici, Catholicism, Charles de Téligny, Charles of Louviers, Charles V, Christendom, Christianity, Christophe de Villeneuve, Condé, Council of Trent, Counter-Reformation, dark ages, Edict of Amboise, Edict of Romorantin, Edict of Saint-Germain, Elizabeth I, England, Enlightenment, extermination, Fernando de Toledo, François de Lorraine, France, Francis of Lorraine, French Parlement, French Revolution, Gaspard de Coligny, genocide, Germany, Guy Du Faur, Henri de Guise, Henri de Valois, Henry of Guise, Henry of Navarre, heresy, Holy Roman Empire, Huguenots, Ian Paisley, Ignatius of Loyola, Iran, Italy, Ivan the Terrible, Jacques de Savoie, Jean Poltrot de Méré, Jesuits, John Calvin, Ku Klux Klan, Louis de Gonzague, Lutheranism, Marguerite de Valois, Martin Luther, Mary Stuart, Mass, Maurevert, Monsoreau, Montpensier, Munster Rebellion, Nemours, Nevers, Northern Ireland, Ottomans, Papal Revolution, Philip II, pogroms, Pope, Pope Gregory VII, Pope Gregory XIII, Portugal, Prince of Orange, Protestant Wind, Protestantism, Psalms, Puritans, Puygaillard, Queen of Scots, Red Wedding, Reformation, religion, René de Birague, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Inquisition, Russia, Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, sectarianism, Seigneur de Pibrac, Seigneur de Vaucluse, Sir Francis Drake, Sir Francis Walsingham, Spain, Spanish Netherlands, superstition, Surprise of Meaux, Te Deum, Terror, The Wake-Up Call for the French and their Neighbours, Thirty Years’ War, Throckmorton Plot, Transubstantiation, Ugonottorum Strages, ultra-Catholics, Vassy Massacre, Vendée, Wars of Religion on August 31, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Did Russia Ever Start a Democratic Transition? Can It?

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.

The Soviet Capture of Australia’s Intelligence System

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 25 June 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged ABC, Aldrich Ames, ASIO, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, Central Intelligence Agency, Cheka, China, Christopher Boyce, CIA, Cold War, Communism, Cook Report, counter-intelligence, Croatian Six, Directorate K, Donald Maclean, espionage, false flag, FCD, First Chief Directorate, Five Eyes, Four Corners, George Sadil, Gerontiy Lazovik, Gough Whitlam, GRU, Guy Burgess, Hungarian Revolution, Hungarian uprising, Ian George Peacock, Intelligence, John Kerr, KGB, Kim Philby, Konstantin Volkov, Labor, Lionel Murphy, Magnificent Five, Main Adversary, MI6, MIRA, mole, Moscow Centre, Nikita Khrushchev, Oleg Gordievsky, Oleg Kalugin, Pine Gap, Robert Hanssen, Russian Orthodox Church, Second World War, Secret Intelligence Service, Secret Speech, SIS, Socialist Commonwealth, SOE, Soviet military intelligence, Soviet Union, Special Operations Executive, spies, spy, SVR, Tasmania, Terror, traitors, treason, Unmasking the Australian Spy Who Sold Secrets to Russia, Vasili Mitrokhin, VENONA, Yuri Andropov, Yuri Shmatkov on June 25, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The Decembrist Revolt: Russia’s Revolutionary Tradition Begins

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 June 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Russia and tagged Albigensian Crusade, Aleksey Arakcheyev, Alexander Benckendorff, Alexander Boshniak, Alexander Golitsyn, Alexander Herzen, Alexander I, Alexander Pushkin, Alexander Radishchev, Anastasy Kuzmin, Ancient Greece, Arkady Maiboroda, Arzamas Society, assassination, Astolphe de Custine, Austria, Battle of Austerlitz, Battle of Borodino, Battle of Kulm, Battle of Leipzig, Battle of Maloyaroslavets, Battle of the Nations, Battle of Trafalgar, Battle of Waterloo, Bolsheviks, Britain, Catherine the Great, Catholicism, Charles XII, chinovnik, Christianity, Civil Constitution of the Clergy, Classical world, Classics, Committee of Public Safety, Congress of Vienna, conspiracy, Crimean War, Decembrist Revolt, Decembrist wife, Dekabristka, egalitarianism, Ekaterina II, Ekaterina Trubetskaya, Enlightenment, espionage, Freemasonry, French Revolution, Greek Revolution, Gustav Goebel, Higher Police, Illarion Vasilchikov, Illuminati, Inquisition, Inquisitors, intelligentsia, Ippolit Muravyov-Apostol, Ivan Pushchin, Ivan Vitt, Jacobinism, Jacobins, Jews, John Sherwood, Joseph Stalin, Klemens von Metternich, Kondraty Ryleyev, Konstantin, Latin Christendom, liberalism, Lord Byron, Ludwig Niklaus von Stürler, Marquis de Custine, Mikhail Bestuzhev-Ryumin, Mikhail Kutuzov, Mikhail Miloradovich, Mikhail Speransky, Nakaz, Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleonic Wars, Nicholas I, Nikita Muravyov, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Nikolay Ogarev, Nikolay Panov, Northern Society, Operation BARBAROSSA, Orthodox Christianity, Paul I, Pavel I, Pavel Kiselyov, Pavel Pestel, Philaret Drozdov, Poland, Protestantism, Pyotr Chaadayev, Pyotr Kakhovsky, Roman Catholic Church, Romanovs, Romanticism, Russian Truth, Russkaya Pravda, secret police, secularism, Sergey Muravyov-Apostol, Sergey Trubetskoy, socialism, Society of United Slavs, Southern Society, Soviet Union, Spain, spies, Talleyrand, Terror, terrorism, terrorist-revolutionaries, Third Section, Treaties of Tilsit, Tsar, Ukraine, Union of Salvation, Vasily Davydov, Vendée War, Viscount Castlereagh, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Raevsky, Vladimir Rayevsky, Wilhelm Küchelbecker on June 3, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

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